1534698 - Implement Stale While Revalidate Handling in fetch()

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[dtapuska]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Chrome is attempting to ship Stale While Revalidate handling. Please consider this for Firefox.

See: https://crbug.com/348877

Fetch spec PR here: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/pull/853

Mozilla standards position: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/144

Comment 1

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

I think this is intended for any fetch() behavior/API changes on top of the s-w-r feature.

Comment 2

[dtapuska]

The fetch spec diffs are here: https://whatpr.org/fetch/853/265974f...99c3b37.html

Comment 3

[dtapuska]

I should also add: https://whatpr.org/fetch/853.html If there are any commits in the fetch PR then the above link might be stale. You should always check the https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/pull/853 and click the "preview" or "diff" URIs in the top comment.

Comment 4

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Thanks!

Comment 5

[Kershaw Chang [:kershaw]]

Honza, do you know who is going to work on this?

Comment 6

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Ah, forgot to close this. There is nothing to be done according https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/144#issuecomment-474940881