Oh sorry, I didn't realize there's a different field for OT. I'm requesting
OT from 139. Not sure how many versions typically OTs should last for (3
milestones)?

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM Mike Taylor <miketa...@chromium.org> wrote:

> Could you clarify which milestones you're requesting to experiment on?
> (Right now it just shows DevTrial on 139)
> On 7/16/25 11:31 a.m., Chromestatus wrote:
>
> Contact emails rak...@chromium.org, m...@chromium.org
>
> Explainer https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/fetch-retry/tree/main
>
> Specification None
>
> Design docs
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C9lAn3tqXsrjxiid1qCC9qSL7jfA1PZdoo2lgL8L5Pw/edit?tab=t.0
>
> Summary
>
> Allow web developers to indicate that a fetch() request should be retried,
> to have a greater guarantee on it being reliably sent, even if network is
> flaky. This is especially important for keepalive fetches, where the
> request might outlive the document, which can no longer watch for its
> failure and do manual retry. We intend to only support this for keepalive
> fetches for now because of implementation simplicity, and also the fact
> that all the use cases would benefit from being keepalive first.
>
>
> Blink component Blink>Loader
> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3ELoader%22>
>
> TAG review None
>
> TAG review status Pending
>
> Risks
>
>
> Interoperability and Compatibility
>
> None
>
>
> *Gecko*: No signal
>
> *WebKit*: No signal (https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/1838) Safari
> devs have responded in the proposal thread and gave constructive feedback
> and doesn't seem to be opposed.
>
> *Web developers*: Positive (
> https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/1838#issuecomment-3035074583)
> Internal developers interested in origin trial. External developers have
> proposed a similar feature/made libraries similar to this, and generally
> seems interested in the proposal thread.
>
> *Other signals*:
>
> Security
>
> Resource Exhaustion: Malicious or misconfigured sites could attempt to
> trigger excessive retries, potentially impacting network resources or
> target servers. Mitigation relies on browsers enforcing strict, reasonable
> limits on maxAttempts and maxAge, alongside implementing backoff delays.
> Timing Attacks/Information Leakage: The timing patterns of retry attempts
> could theoretically leak some information about network conditions. This is
> unlikely to provide substantially more information than can already be
> inferred by observing standard network request timings and failures.
> Additionally the browser will ensure that the errors are not exposed to the
> script until max age set in the retry options is reached, regardless of
> whether a retry happened or not, and only the latest error is exposed
> instead of all attempts.The risk is considered low.
>
>
> WebView application risks
>
> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that
> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>
> None
>
>
> Goals for experimentation
>
> Ongoing technical constraints
>
> None
>
>
> Debuggability
>
> None
>
>
> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
> Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)? Yes
>
> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
> ? No
>
> This feature is essentially invisible to the script initiating the fetch
> since it can't know if a retry happened or not.
>
>
> Flag name on about://flags
>
> Finch feature name FetchRetry
>
> Requires code in //chrome? False
>
> Tracking bug https://crbug.com/417930271
>
> Estimated milestones
> DevTrial on desktop 139
> DevTrial on Android 139
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5181984581877760?gate=5140384199737344
>
> Links to previous Intent discussions Intent to Prototype:
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CACPC1r6QFoqcmdoEMeG4JKJXGLqvGW%2BMr-UZj%2Br6HrQ%3DTNqKYQ%40mail.gmail.com
>
>
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