704102 - Mint a chrome-only XHR response type for xhr.channel

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Gecko has a .channel property on XHR that only chrome-privileged code can access. When chrome code only wants to hook its listeners to the channel, all the other stuff that XHR does to populate the Web-exposed response properties is pure overhead.

There should be a response type that only chrome-privileged code can set that'd turn off the usual response population (i.e. turn off response parsing and responseText conversion as well as arraybuffer buffering) and so that there's nothing to see except .channel.

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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