w3c / w3c/ServiceWorker

consider dropping unnecessary request information when storing in Cache API

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Description

Currently the Cache API spec is written such that the entire Request is stored as the key in a table. All information about the Request is preserved. In theory this allows callers to use cache.keys() to get requests back out and initiate a fetch with them.

In practice implementations do not preserve this information in a compatible way. Gecko has tended to try to preserve all values as indicated by the spec. Chromium currently only preserves the information necessary for matching; i.e. the url and headers.

Since getting requests back out of cache.keys() is a bit niche, do we still want to require storing all information on the request? For example, things like mode, credentials, destination, internal origin value, etc.

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Start with the Cache API specification's Request storage and cache.keys() behavior; compare the Gecko and Chromium preservation described here. Done means deciding whether the specification should continue requiring full Request information and documenting the resulting interoperability requirement.

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api
Issue type
Feature
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Over a week
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Needs clarification
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