Question

In the XMLHttpRequest Spec it says that:

The DONE state has an associated error
flag that indicates some type of
network error or abortion. It can be
either true or false and has an
initial value of false.

Also says something similar about a “send() flag” in an “OPENED” state.

It’s said in the specification but not in the IDL and when I create a new XMLHttpRequest I can’t find those “flags”.

Where are those boolean variables?

Answer 1

I wrote to the webapps e-mail list about those flags, this is what they responded:

Everything that authors can use is
expressed in the Web IDL fragment.
Everything outside of that represents
some kind of data implementations need
to keep around one way or another to
properly implement the specification.

(That was my doubt)