Bug 29281 – XMLHttpRequest fails to make synchronous requests

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: New Bugs

[jasneet]

I Steps:
Go to   http://www.r-n-d.org/gt.html
        http://www.r-n-d.org/loader.js

OR
1. Create an XML file that is to be read by the XMLHttpRequest instance
2. Create an HTML document with the following snippet to read the XML file:
var xmlObj = new XMLHttpRequest();
// synchronous XMLHttpRequest call
xmlObj.open("GET", <name of file>, false);
xmlObj.send("");
xmlDoc = xmlObj.responseXML;

3. Place both the HTML document and the XML file on a remote server 
(preferably not on a high-bandwidth server)

4. Check if xmlDoc is null.

II Issue:
XMLHttpRequest.responseXML should return an actual XML document object, but XMLHttpRequest.responseXML is null. (on Mac - Safari)

III Other Browsers:
IE7: ok
FF3: ok

Bug in Chromium : http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1413

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This bug makes no sense to me.

> Go to   http://www.r-n-d.org/gt.html

Opening this page results in lots of messages about Google Gears not being installed.

1. Create an XML file that is to be read by the XMLHttpRequest instance
2. Create an HTML document with the following snippet to read the XML file:

I cannot reproduce this in Safari 4.0.3 on Mac. We certainly have XMLHttpRequest.responseXML implemented and working.

Please provide a clean test case that reproduces a problem you're seeing.