This package provides package:http client based on Fetch API with WASM support.
It's a drop-in solution for extensions with Manifest V3.
- WASM-ready internals.
- Cancel requests.
- Support data streaming:
- Get response as
Stream
. - Optionally send
Stream
as request body (supported only in Chromium 105+ based browsers).
- Get response as
- Get access to redirect URL and status.
- Support non-
200
responses (fetch
will only fail on network errors). - Simulate redirects responses via probe request and artificial
location
header.
This modules maps keepalive
to BaseRequest.persistentConnection
which is true
by default.
Fetch spec says that maximum request size with keepalive
flag is 64KiB:
4.5. HTTP-network-or-cache fetch
8.10.5: If the sum of contentLength and inflightKeepaliveBytes is greater than 64 kibibytes, then return a network error.
Therefore if your request is larger than 64KiB (this includes some other data,
such as headers) BaseRequest.persistentConnection
will be ignored and threated as false
.
Request streaming is supported only in Chromium 105+ based browsers and requires server to use HTTP/2 or HTTP/3.
See MDN compatibility chart and Chrome Developers blog for more info.