$http service should accept xhr2's responseType property

[ebidel]

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/xhr2/

Requesting the resource as a "blob" or "arraybuffer" is something new to xhr and is quite useful for working with binary data

[vojtajina]

In case of responseType is not text (arraybuffer, blob, document), the data passed to callback should be xhr.response, instead of xhr.responseText.

[ebidel]

IIRC, Chrome sets xhr.response also in the responseType='', responseType='text' cases.
But that could very well be in implementation divergence from the spec.

[felixfbecker]

I'm trying to get binary data (a simple jpeg image) with responseType: 'blob' (also tried 'arraybuffer'), but the data property of the response object is always a string instead of a Blob object. Am I doing something wrong? This issue is closed, so it should work, right?

[felixfbecker]

Ok I found out it didn't work because I was using ngMockE2E. However, I specified to passThrough() the request - it seems like $httpBackend swallows the responseType parameter.
See #11524