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Steen</span>, Mozilla</span> <span property="rdf:rest" resource="rdf:nil"></span> </dd> </dl> <p class="copyright"> <a href="https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a> © 2016 <a href="https://www.w3.org/"><abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></a><sup>®</sup> (<a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr></a>, <a href="https://www.ercim.eu/"><abbr title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</abbr></a>, <a href="https://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio</a>, <a href="http://ev.buaa.edu.cn/">Beihang</a>). <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> <a href="https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Legal_Disclaimer">liability</a>, <a href="https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#W3C_Trademarks">trademark</a> and <a rel="license" href="https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents">document use</a> rules apply. </p> <hr title="Separator for header"> </div> <section id="abstract" class="introductory" property="dc:abstract"> <h2 id="h-abstract" resource="#h-abstract"><span property="xhv:role" resource="xhv:heading">Abstract</span></h2> <p> The XMLHttpRequest specification defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server. </p> </section> <section id="sotd" class="introductory"> <h2 id="h-sotd" resource="#h-sotd"><span property="xhv:role" resource="xhv:heading">Status of This Document</span></h2> <p> <em>This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/"><abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> technical reports index</a> at https://www.w3.org/TR/.</em> </p> <p><strong>Work on this document has been discontinued and it should not be referenced or used as a basis for implementation. Please refer to the <a href="https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/">XMLHttpRequest Living Specification</a> for the latest available specification of this API.</strong></p><strong> </strong> <p> This document was published by the <a href="https://www.w3.org/WebPlatform/WG/">Web Platform Working Group</a> as a Working Group Note. 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