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"To obtain a connection, given a network partiti..." #1577

Open hawkinsw opened 1 year ago

hawkinsw commented 1 year ago

https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/commit-snapshots/84ea7dbb5793fd7e560bb80ea53c31cf32bb513f/#connections

To obtain a connection, given a network partition key key, URL url, boolean credentials, an optional new connection setting new (default "no"), and an optional boolean http3Only (default false), run these steps:​

I am sorry to have to ask this question, but I was looking through the spec to help me understand how fetch could help me with a very special use case. In particular, we would really like the application to use new connections for particular requests. Needless to say, when I saw the new connection setting flag in the obtain a connection operation, I was definitely excited.

However, as I follow it through the spec, it does not appear that there are any places that supply the new connection setting to the obtain a connection operation. From what I can tell, obtain a connection is used in HTTP-network fetch which is (only) used by HTTP-network-or-cache fetch which is used in several places.

It does not appear, though, that any of those places specify the new connection flag as an argument. I am sure that I am missing something, but I cannot seem to figure out what it is. If you could help, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you! Will

annevk commented 1 year ago

It's only there for WebTransport and even that might be somewhat controversial as I understand it.

hawkinsw commented 1 year ago

Thank you! Your response reassures me that I am not totally losing my mind!

Thanks again! Will