Service Worker: Change the fetch API request flags (mode, credentials and redirect) for navigation requests.

Category: Service Worker
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 47)
Intent stage: None

Summary

The flags of request objects which are passed to the service worker's Fetch Event handler for navigation requests will be changed. Current: mode: "no-cors" credentials: "same-origin" redirect: "follow" (available since in M46) From M47: mode: "same-origin" credentials: "include" redirect: "manual"

Standards & signals

Specification: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/106#issuecomment-128735776
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/522873

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/Request

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