Index: khtml/ecma/xmlhttprequest.cpp
===================================================================
--- khtml/ecma/xmlhttprequest.cpp	(revision 1035538)
+++ khtml/ecma/xmlhttprequest.cpp	(revision 1035539)
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 
 using namespace KJS;
 using namespace DOM;
-// 
+//
 ////////////////////// XMLHttpRequest Object ////////////////////////
 
 /* Source for XMLHttpRequestProtoTable.
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@
 static bool canSetRequestHeader(const QString& name)
 {
     static QSet<CaseInsensitiveString> forbiddenHeaders;
-    
+
     if (forbiddenHeaders.isEmpty()) {
 	static const char* hdrs[] = {
 	    "accept-charset",
@@ -298,12 +298,12 @@
 	    "transfer-encoding",
 	    "unlock",
 	    "upgrade",
-	    "via" 
+	    "via"
 	};
 	for (size_t i = 0; i < sizeof(hdrs)/sizeof(char*); ++i)
 	    forbiddenHeaders.insert(CaseInsensitiveString(hdrs[i]));
     }
-    
+
     return !forbiddenHeaders.contains(name);
 }
 
@@ -326,9 +326,9 @@
 
 XMLHttpRequest::~XMLHttpRequest()
 {
-  if (onLoadListener) 
+  if (onLoadListener)
       onLoadListener->deref();
-  if (onReadyStateChangeListener) 
+  if (onReadyStateChangeListener)
       onReadyStateChangeListener->deref();
   delete qObject;
   qObject = 0;
@@ -412,18 +412,19 @@
       return;
   }
 
+  const QString protocol = url.protocol().toLower();
+  // Abandon the request when the protocol is other than "http",
+  // instead of blindly doing a KIO::get on other protocols like file:/.
+  if (!protocol.startsWith(QLatin1String("http")) &&
+      !protocol.startsWith(QLatin1String("webdav")))
+  {
+    ec = DOMException::INVALID_ACCESS_ERR;
+    abort();
+    return;
+  }
+
   if (method == "post") {
-    QString protocol = url.protocol().toLower();
 
-    // Abondon the request when the protocol is other than "http",
-    // instead of blindly changing it to a "get" request.
-    if (!protocol.startsWith(QLatin1String("http")) &&
-        !protocol.startsWith(QLatin1String("webdav")))
-    {
-      abort();
-      return;
-    }
-
     // FIXME: determine post encoding correctly by looking in headers
     // for charset.
     QByteArray buf = _body.toUtf8();
@@ -580,7 +581,7 @@
       ec = DOMException::INVALID_STATE_ERR;
       return jsString("");
   }
-  
+
   // ### test error flag, return jsNull
 
   if (responseHeaders.isEmpty()) {
@@ -809,7 +810,7 @@
       setDOMException(exec, ec);
       return ret;
     }
-  case XMLHttpRequest::GetResponseHeader: 
+  case XMLHttpRequest::GetResponseHeader:
     {
       if (args.size() < 1)
           return throwError(exec, SyntaxError, "Not enough arguments");
@@ -852,11 +853,11 @@
         DOM::NodeImpl* docNode = toNode(args[0]);
         if (docNode && docNode->isDocumentNode()) {
           DOM::DocumentImpl *doc = static_cast<DOM::DocumentImpl *>(docNode);
-          
+
           try {
             body = doc->toString().string();
             // FIXME: also need to set content type, including encoding!
-  
+
           } catch(DOM::DOMException&) {
             return throwError(exec, GeneralError, "Exception serializing document");
           }
@@ -866,7 +867,7 @@
       }
 
       request->send(body, ec);
-      setDOMException(exec, ec);  
+      setDOMException(exec, ec);
       return jsUndefined();
     }
   case XMLHttpRequest::SetRequestHeader: