Add support for <link rel=compression-dictionary ...>

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
html
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start by reading the linked Compression Dictionary Transport draft and the HTML Standard's existing prefetch link relation behavior. Define the compression-dictionary relation to follow that behavior while passing the specified initiator and using anonymous crossorigin; done means the HTML behavior is fully specified.

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Description

addition/proposal needs implementer interest topic: fetch
What problem are you trying to solve?

The Compression Dictionary Transport spec defines a link relation for loading compression dictionaries. The HTML implementation of the link relation should be spec'd.

What solutions exist today?

None.

How would you solve it?

Define the compression-dictionary link relation behavior to mirror the behavior of a prefetch except for passing "compression-dictionary" through to fetch as the initiator and defaulting crossorigin to "anonymous" (instead of No-cors).

Anything else?

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