Closed Bug 1281444 Opened 8 years ago Closed 5 years ago

navigator.sendBeacon for workers

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Workers, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Workers
Version:
36 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: smaug, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [tw-dom]) 

Looks like we don't support sendBeacon in workers. Per https://w3c.github.io/beacon/#sec-sendBeacon-method we should.
I'm not familiar with sendBeacon implementation, but maybe sicking or ehsan could mentor this one?

It was told that Edge keeps network alive in workers a bit longer than the rest of the worker to give sendBeacon better chance to succeed.
Whiteboard: [tw-dom]
Whiteboard: [tw-dom] → [tw-dom] btpp-backlog
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [tw-dom] btpp-backlog → [tw-dom]
sendBeacon is not exposed to workers. See the latest spec: https://w3c.github.io/beacon/#sendbeacon-method

Spec says: "partial interface Navigator {.." and Navigator is not exposed to workers. In workers we have WorkerNavigator:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/workers.html#workernavigator

"The navigator attribute of the WorkerGlobalScope interface must return an instance of the WorkerNavigator interface, which represents the identity and state of the user agent (the client):"
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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