Note: I would like to roll this out via a standard Finch rollout in order to monitor for any issues, rather than enabling by default with the M122 release. This change is otherwise fairly minor in terms of the web platform API surface area.
Contact emailsjbro...@chromium.org ExplainerNone Specificationhttps://wicg.github.io/nav-speculation/prefetch.html Summary Today, Chromium does not follow redirects when prefetching for navigation (most notably from speculation rules). With this change, it will follow redirects, even cross-origin and cross-site redirects. This is consistent with following redirects during other kinds of fetches, though additional privacy constraints apply to cross-site navigational prefetches. Blink componentInternals>Preload <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Internals%3EPreload> TAG reviewNone TAG review statusNot applicable Risks Interoperability and Compatibility The biggest interoperability risk is that differences in browsers' privacy models leads to different behavior in cross-site cases, leading to prefetches which complete successfully in some browsers but not in others. The specification is designed with this behavior converging as partitioning behavior in general converges, but some skew is expected in this area for now. *Gecko*: No signal *WebKit*: No signal *Web developers*: No signals *Other signals*: Security No believed new issues, but see https://wicg.github.io/nav-speculation/speculation-rules.html#security-considerations WebView application risks Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? None Debuggability The feature should be debuggable through the Network panel of Chrome Dev Tools, and the upcoming Preloading panel. Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?Yes Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> ?Yes https://wpt.fyi/results/speculation-rules/prefetch/redirect-url.sub.https.html?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=speculation-rules%2Fprefetch%2Fredirect (not currently passing because this is disabled) Flag name on chrome://flagsNone Finch feature namePrefetchRedirects Requires code in //chrome?False Availability expectationContingent on speculation rules prefetch generally; this is a minor change to it. Adoption expectationExisting users of speculation rules prefetch will automatically star following redirects rather than failing. Estimated milestones Shipping on desktop 122 Shipping on Android 122 Shipping on WebView 122 Anticipated spec changes Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of the API in a non-backward-compatible way). None Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status https://chromestatus.com/feature/5176234944495616 This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status <https://chromestatus.com/>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CACuR13fW3Vgk71H6-tH0ke5MN69KNWWgXnQtm91KUAFUqk89Mg%40mail.gmail.com.
