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XMLHttpRequest

Web API in the form of an object, provided by the user agent, whose methods transfer data between a user agent and a web server, often for continually modifying a loaded web page; despite the name, can be used with non-HTTP protocols or non-XML data
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XMLHttpRequest

Summary

XMLHttpRequest is a client-side web API[1]. XMLHttpRequest has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • XMLHttpRequest is credited with the discovery of Microsoft[3].
  • XMLHttpRequest's instance of is recorded as client-side web API[4].
  • XML is named after XMLHttpRequest[5].
  • HTTP request is named after XMLHttpRequest[6].
  • XMLHttpRequest was followed by Fetch API[7].
  • XMLHttpRequest's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International[8].
  • XMLHttpRequest is used for AJAX[9].
  • XMLHttpRequest's mascot is recorded as Ajax the Great[10].
  • XMLHttpRequest's official website is recorded as https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/[11].
  • XMLHttpRequest's official website is recorded as https://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/[12].
  • XMLHttpRequest's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/whatwg/xhr[13].
  • XMLHttpRequest's standards body is recorded as Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group[14].
  • XMLHttpRequest's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/xmlhttprequest[15].
  • XMLHttpRequest's short name is recorded as XHR[16].
  • XMLHttpRequest's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[17].

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Definition and Type

XMLHttpRequest's instance of is recorded as client-side web API[4].

Origins

Things named after include XML[5], a markup language[18], founded in 1998[19], written by Michael Sperberg-McQueen[20] and HTTP request[6].

Use and Application

XMLHttpRequest is used for AJAX[9].

Why It Matters

XMLHttpRequest has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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