Header to opt out of opaque redirect
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addition/proposal
needs implementer interest
topic: redirects
- Dominant language
- HTML
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Description
Something like Access-Control-Allow-Visible-Redirect: *
This would make a redirect responses visible. If the request was cross-origin, it would still have to pass existing CORS checks, and would be filtered accordingly.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the proposed header and the 63-comment discussion to understand the unresolved behavior around redirects and CORS. Done would require an agreed Fetch Standard design and corresponding specification changes, but the issue names no files, tests, or implementation entry points.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- api, security, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100