XMLHttpRequest Vs HttpRequest
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XMLHttpRequest
is a standard javascript object that allows you to make HTTP Requests from the browser in javascript.
HttpRequest
is a server side object that represents a request to the server.
In summary - one works in the browser, the other in the web server. They also have completely different roles. XMLHttpRequest
is for fetching web resources within the browser. HttpRequest
represents an incoming request.
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Author by
dali1985
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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dali1985 over 1 year
Does anyone know, what an
XMLHttpRequest
enables a web page to do, which cannot be done using a normalHttpRequest
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Ryan Mckenna over 2 yearsSurely they both represent outgoing requests! Hence the work request, anything that is incoming is a response! I thought XMLHttpRequest was as you said, a means of making a http request via javascript and that a HttpRequest is an object that is built into the browser that represents a request made via the url bar in the browser's gui.