[Cosmo-dev] CMP 204 responses

[Brian Moseley]

On 2/20/07, Travis Vachon <travis at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> Unfortunately, it looks like the XHR requests in these browsers bail
> before the javascript gets access to them, and doesn't even preserve
> details like the headers, so unfortunately this won't work.

that is some unbelievably shortsighted programming.

here's another suggestion: use a servlet filter that detects the
crappy user agents and returns specific response codes and content for
them only. that way we don't muddy the protocol but can still support
broken clients.