Re:After 1 minute on my modem (2016)
by eponeponepon on Saturday January 14, 2017 @01:26PM
(#13399750)
can I take a moment to call out
WHATWG for deciding to specify
that all networking errors in
XmlHttpRequest get status: 0
I think this is one of those times where people should be ignoring the spec.Do the w3c specs have anything to say on the matter?
According to w3c:
> The error flag indicates some type of network error or request abortion
and in their spec for "network errors" at https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20120117/#reque... unless you're using it in synchronous mode, it just sets the error flag. There's an onerror callback, but it doesn't appear to get any information about what went wrong than the WHATWG version.
Side rant: can I take a moment to call out WHATWG for deciding to specify that all networking errors in XmlHttpRequest get status: 0 and absolutely no explanation anywhere in the response object ( see https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-network-error ), making it absolutely a nightmare to diagnose problems and support our users? I suppose in a world of fail whales and cute cat pics, leaving the user in the dark as to why something broke is now standard practice, but at least in those cases there's something server side to let techs know what's going on, but I get random calls from users complaining about this and the best I've got is that they tried to leave the page while the form was still saving (this triggers the error handler too since it's the exact same code) or their internet connection dropped ever so briefly because the next words out of their mouth when they say that is "but I can view other websites".