[webkit-dev] Glib download API change request

[Alex Christensen via webkit-dev]

Since the introduction of WKDownload in 2020, I’ve been trying to make the 
download object creation process asynchronous in WebKit.  With 290510@main I’ve 
removed the last caller of WebProcessPool::download from the Cocoa platform, 
but I noticed that the glib APIs have 3 places where a WebKitDownload* object 
is returned synchronously from an API call: webkit_web_context_download_uri, 
webkit_web_view_download_uri, and webkit_network_session_download_uri.  Would 
the maintainers of these APIs be willing to deprecate and remove them in favor 
of an API design closer to WKWebView’s 
startDownloadUsingRequest:completionHandler:?  That function is given a 
callback which asynchronously provides the download object to the API client.  
It would also be nice if webkit_download_cancel could be reshaped to look more 
like WKDownload.cancel: and stop using legacyDidCancel.
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