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Fetch API: Streaming response body

Category

Network / Connectivity

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 43)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Addition of the response.body property to the Fetch API. response.body is a ReadableStream from the Streams Standard.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#response-class
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=240603

Docs: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/35_QSL1ABTY https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/#rs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/fetch-api/fetch-response-stream.html

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