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…are usually meant more for one-shot access. QUERY is meant to address these limitations. [1]: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/551

comment by EnnEmmEss · 2026-06-23 · in The new HTTP QUERY method explained

…the relavent spec said it should work, until it was deprecated and removed from the standard https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/pull/1166 With flash - that might all be true, but there was a time when many websites required it. It might not…

comment by bawolff · 2025-11-01 · in Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT

…last few years. There has been a lot of pushback against supporting full-duplex streams[0]. [0]: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/1254

comment by nitely · 2025-02-28 · in There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer

…(just documenting, the discussions have already happened). You can follow along here if you'd like: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/1739

comment by patrickmeenan · 2024-09-15 · in Compression Dictionary Transport

…a good chance to make use of Push! We can't see Pushes coming at us, cant be responsive to them! https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/51 It also feels like the use case everyone was focusing on/acknowlegding of content delivery had…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-09-06 · in Intent to unship: HTTP/2 Push

Full duplex streaming (which Deno supports) would be even nicer. Not yet part of the WHATWG Streams: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/1254

comment by ignoramous · 2023-07-22 · in Bun v0.7.0

…when it was available, it lacked the oft requested ability to get notice of new pushed resources. ( https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/65 was an old request. https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/607 had some steam in making it…

comment by rektide · 2023-05-15 · in Server-sent events

…been, trying ro actually enjoy the new http standards; resistance on all fronts to real usage. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/51

comment by rektide · 2023-02-22 · in Is it time to replace TCP in data centers?

Note that caching resources across sites isn't really a thing anymore. See https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/904

comment by bakkoting · 2022-12-12 · in Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost

Maybe referring to GET, not POST/PUT bodies? https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/83 Seems pretty short-sighted of a decision there, since XMLHTTPReq does it just fine, and it is in the HTTP RFC's

comment by hobobaggins · 2022-08-20 · in Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome

…bidirectionalism beyond request-response. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32514159 [2] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/607

comment by rektide · 2022-08-19 · in Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome

…Push support to fetch so developers could try out other uses for push. Seemingly ignored by chrome. https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/607 Having the browser be a minimalist, picky implementation of http protocols is hard for me to…

comment by rektide · 2022-08-18 · in Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome

…issue tracker. Apparently, there is a new issue for it, so that might yet happen: [2]. [1]: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/34 [2]: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/981

comment by twiss · 2022-08-08 · in Why does gRPC insist on trailers?

…to implement them, but also without, ideally, giving Google the power to veto them). [1]: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/772

comment by twiss · 2022-08-08 · in Why does gRPC insist on trailers?

…. There's also a series of whatwg issues about exposing trailers in the fetch API: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/34 . For a protocol that sits above L7, the gRPC HTTP/2 protocol is liberal about diving past the semantics outlined…

comment by akshayshah · 2022-08-04 · in Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers

…never letting us try. Here's a good recent (4 year old) issue; it links back to much older issues. https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/607 The rest of the protobuf world has gotten so much better. But the grpc on the web hacks feel bad.…

comment by rektide · 2022-08-04 · in Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers

…http is for. If it can't help them load pages off one of their CDNs faster, they don't care. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/65

comment by rektide · 2022-04-20 · in gRPC and gRPC-web via a single Istio gateway port

…most basic follow-through on what they start. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8030 [2] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/51 [3] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/K3rYL...

comment by rektide · 2022-02-20 · in Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP

There's a relevant spec issue here https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/973

comment by styfle · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js

There's a relevant spec issue you can follow here https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/973

comment by styfle · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js

This is fetch: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API Here is discussion about it in Node with some (pretty old) discussion https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tn_-0S_FG_sla81wFohi8Sc8...

comment by inglor · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js

A bit late for the original discussion, but in case it helps future readers, I've filed https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/1295 to see if we can get the spec and browsers aligned. (My guess is we will update the spec to allow this and…

comment by domenicd · 2021-08-14 · in Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages

…to look this stuff up. I have a few commits to the spec, but I barely show up in the `git blame`. https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/graphs/contributors I've written articles about fetch in the past, but if I search Google for "fetch API" my…

comment by jaffathecake · 2021-07-01 · in Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams

…WebTransport, &c. HTTP (almost) was here. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064855 [2] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/51 Edit: there was a deleted comment saying that this kind of use case is not what Push was for, is not…

comment by rektide · 2021-01-27 · in Data fetching on the web still sucks

…can help it along, and that the world has a chance to use this amazing enhancement to HTTP. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/65

comment by rektide · 2020-12-03 · in HTTP/2 Push is dead

…were so terrible at this. [1] https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/push-notifica... [2] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/65

comment by rektide · 2020-11-12 · in Blink: Intent to Remove: HTTP/2 and gQUIC server push

…fetch(), which uses promises as return type, do not support aborting requests, as discussed [here]( https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/447 ) but the [old XMLHttpRequest does]( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequ…

comment by Guillaume86 · 2017-11-10 · in Simple React Patterns

…multiple models, for the programmer to choose according to their particular use case. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/27

comment by lobster_johnson · 2017-01-05 · in Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, and Memory Usage

…& Web Push — something I expected to be at the bottom of the priority list for Apple's browser. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/27

comment by wanda · 2016-08-31 · in Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview Release 12

This thread has a much more in-depth discussion on the considerations for designing this API: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/27 One key point is: since a promise can have multiple then-subscribers interested in it, (a) is it the…

comment by btown · 2016-05-26 · in JavaScript Cancelable Promises Proposal

In fetch's defence it will in future once the Streams API is finalised: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/21

comment by nailer · 2016-05-17 · in JavaScript async/await implemented in V8

…don't reject on non-2XX! I use axios instead. This is especially so sad when using async/await :( https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/18 fetch(url) .then((res) => { if (res.statusCode < 200 || res.statusCode > 299) { throw new…

comment by marktucker · 2016-04-02 · in Cash: An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers