kubb-cli

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Key Contributors

Stijn Van Hulle 💻	Wouter Roozeleer 💻	Alfred 💻	Kirill Agalakov 💻	Nick Williams 📖	helt 💻	Vasily Mikhaylovsky 💻
Chaim Lev-Ari 💻	Pavel Belousov 💻	Dmitry Belov 💻	Alex Burgel 💻	Daniel Garcia 💻	wuyuanyi135 💻	Chris Thompson 💻
Caleb Hoyoul Kang 💻	Gregory Zhukovsky 💻	Christoffer Nørbjerg 💻	CHE1RON 💻	ekaradon 💻	Thijmen Stavenuiter 💻	Bohdan Husak 📖
Éric Le Maître 💻	Rubens Pereira do Nascimento 💻	Matt Sutkowski 💻	Vítor Camacho 💻	Václav Procházka 💻	Luiz Bett 💻	Sebastian Andersen 💻
Akino 💻	Ricardo Machado 💻	Simon El Nahas 📖	maartenvansambeek 💻	Stefan du Fresne 💻	Hugo Felippe de Souza Cruz 💻	Sébastien Vanvelthem 💻
Vitaly Gashkov 📖	Duco Drupsteen 💻	th3l0g4n 💻	rxliuli 💻	humarkx 💻

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LEGACY_NETWORK_API: The Document Object Model (DOM) XMLHttpRequest (XHR) object is a legacy mechanism provided by web browsers for making asynchronous Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests to a remote server subsequent to initial page load. This capability is fundamental to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) implementations. Before XHR, the typical interaction patterns involved full-page reloads triggered by standard anchor tag clicks or form submissions.

== Origin and Evolution == XMLHttpRequest was initially prototyped around the year 2000 by Microsoft developers working on the Outlook Web Access interface. It first appeared in Internet Explorer version 5, released in 1999, though its initial invocation syntax utilized COM object identifiers like ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"). By the release of Internet Explorer 7 (2006), comprehensive support for the standardized XMLHttpRequest name had been established across all dominant browser engines, including Mozilla's Gecko (2002), Apple's WebKit-based Safari 1.2 (2004), and Opera 8.0 (2005).

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the initial Working Draft for the standardized XMLHttpRequest API on April 5, 2006. A subsequent Level 2 draft arrived on February 25, 2008, introducing crucial features such as progress monitoring events, facilities for cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), and mechanisms for handling binary data streams. By the close of 2011, these Level 2 enhancements were integrated into the main specification. Development responsibility later transitioned to the WHATWG, which now maintains the specification as a living document defined using Web IDL.

== Standard Operation Pattern == Executing an HTTP transaction using XHR typically requires adherence to several sequential programming steps:

1. Instantiate the XHR object via its constructor.
2. Invoke the open() method to define the request method (GET, POST, etc.), specify the target URI, and choose between synchronous or asynchronous execution.
3. For asynchronous operations, register a callback function (event listener) to process state transitions.
4. Initiate the data transfer using the send() method, optionally supplying request body data.
5. Monitor the object's readyState property; when it reaches 4 (the 'done' state), the response is ready for consumption, primarily through the responseText property.

Beyond these basics, XHR offers fine-grained control, allowing for custom header specification to instruct the server on processing, efficient uploading of data payloads, automatic parsing of incoming JSON responses into native JavaScript objects, or streaming response data incrementally. Furthermore, requests can be terminated mid-flight or configured with a timeout duration.