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…network again whatever happens. (bug 6258) git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@2616 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Dec 29, 2008 · e44e65f · e44e65f
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@@ -46833,7 +46833,13 @@ interface <dfn id=messagechannel>MessageChannel</dfn> {
    <i>confident</i>. Whenever possible, this should be done without
    actually contacting the network layer (the bytes should be
    re-parsed from memory), even if, e.g., the document is marked as
-   not being cacheable.</li>
+   not being cacheable. If this is not possible and contacting the
+   network layer would involve repeating a request that uses a method
+   other than HTTP GET (<a href=#concept-http-equivalent-get title=concept-http-equivalent-get>or
+   equivalent</a> for non-HTTP URLs), then instead set the <a href=#concept-encoding-confidence title=concept-encoding-confidence>confidence</a> to
+   <i>confident</i> and ignore the new encoding. The resource will be
+   misinterpreted. User agents may notify the user of the situation,
+   to aid in application development.</li>
 
   </ol><h4 id=parse-state><span class=secno>8.2.3 </span>Parse state</h4>
 

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@@ -53418,7 +53418,14 @@ interface <dfn>MessageChannel</dfn> {
    <i>confident</i>. Whenever possible, this should be done without
    actually contacting the network layer (the bytes should be
    re-parsed from memory), even if, e.g., the document is marked as
-   not being cacheable.</li>
+   not being cacheable. If this is not possible and contacting the
+   network layer would involve repeating a request that uses a method
+   other than HTTP GET (<span title="concept-http-equivalent-get">or
+   equivalent</span> for non-HTTP URLs), then instead set the <span
+   title="concept-encoding-confidence">confidence</span> to
+   <i>confident</i> and ignore the new encoding. The resource will be
+   misinterpreted. User agents may notify the user of the situation,
+   to aid in application development.</li>
 
   </ol>