Re: [hybi] Interface for Large Frames

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Thu, 23 June 2011 11:47 UTC

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From: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>
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2011/6/23 Philipp Serafin <phil127@gmail.com>:
> Hasn't XMLHTTPRequest basically the same problem?
> The current JS API for XHR makes it necessary for a browser to buffer
> the complete response before passing it on to the JS layer. There also
> don't seem to be any clear restrictions on the maximum size of a
> resource fetched via XHR.
> Maybe it could be useful to see how current browsers handle the edge
> case of very large XHR responses?

I expect the problem will be more in server side than in client side.

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