830883 - (request) Need to offer a way to make private requests

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Supporting_per-window_private_browsing#Forcing_a_channel_into_private_mode for more info on how to do this.

I'm guessing there should be a `private` option for the Request constructor.

Comment 1

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

Maybe, but I'm not sure about the relevance to be honest. My guess would be that private XHRs do not cache or store cookies. I don't thin we do later anyway.

Can we find out how behavior will be different before adding this option, for the very list documentation should be clear about how behavior changes if option is set
to `true`.

Comment 2

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Josh can you answer Irakli'squestion in comment 1?  I don't know what all of the benefits of a private channel are either.

Comment 3

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

If a channel is private, it does not share cache entries with public channels, nor authentication cache entries, nor cookies. These things are all persisted and shared with other private channels in the same private session. It is important that this option be available for users.

Comment 4

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Is this still possible now after the change made in bug 820953 ?

Comment 5

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

(In reply to Erik Vold [:erikvold] [:ztatic] from comment #4)
> Is this still possible now after the change made in bug 820953 ?

You still can query XHR with a same nsIXMLHttpRequest interface and there for should be possible.

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399562

Comment 7

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399562