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Fetch

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Revision as of 12:09, 11 February 2013 by Annevk (talk | contribs) (→‎Request)
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Fetch is fetch.spec.whatwg.org and will define HTML fetch and CORS as a set of coherent algorithms rather than the intertwined mess we have now. It will also deal with the following:

  • Deal with authentication (URLs containing username/password, servers responding with 401)
  • Deal with URL processing
  • Define HTTP context for data: URLs, about:blank, and file: URLs.
  • Progress Events

Model

The basic model is Request -> Fetch -> Response.

Request

  • Parsed URL (object)
  • method (probably with restrictions as seen in XHR)
  • UA headers
  • author headers (maybe rename because people get upset with "author", with implicit restrictions as seen in XHR / CORS)
  • entity body
  • origin (object)
  • referrer source (Document / URL)
  • manual redirect flag
  • omit credentials flag (will replace HTML fetch block cookies flag but also has other features)
  • force preflight flag (set for upload progress notifications (to not reveal existence of server in case of POST I suppose; I should know...))
  • synchronous flag
  • force same-origin flag

For http/https we need to allow these kind of CORS requests:

  • No CORS, taint (<link>, <script>, ...); still need to allow the server to opt in to CORS anyway to effectively make the resource CORS same-origin even if not requested as such (HTML does not have this feature currently)
  • No CORS, fail (<track>)
  • Anonymous
  • Credentialed

Fetch

Have a case-switch on URL scheme. See also URL. Fetch results in a network error response unless the scheme is one of

  • http
  • https
  • ftp
  • file
  • about
  • data
  • blob

CORS stuff is only relevant for http/https. Can be relevant even for same-origin requests in case of cross-origin redirect without the manual redirect flag set.

XXX ...

Response

Both intermediate updates (progress, headers received, ...) and final. Also indicates network error / CORS error (exposed as network error), ...