LGTM3

On Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 5:25:18 PM UTC+2 Mike Taylor wrote:

> LGTM2
> On 8/17/26 2:49 p.m., Alex Russell wrote:
>
> LGTM1
>
> On Friday, August 14, 2026 at 4:10:14 PM UTC-7 Chromestatus wrote:
>
>> *Contact emails*
>> [email protected]
>>
>> *Explainer*
>> *No information provided*
>>
>> *Specification*
>> https://wicg.github.io/background-fetch 
>>
>> *Summary*
>> Background Fetch requests will now require that the service worker's 
>> origin has the necessary Local Network Access (LNA) permission in order to 
>> send requests to local or loopback servers. This aligns Chromium's 
>> implementation with the intent of the Background Fetch spec (that such 
>> requests go through the Fetch spec and have the same security policies 
>> applied to them, in this case Local Network Access checks). This prevents 
>> sites from bypassing LNA checks by using Background Fetch instead of 
>> regular Fetch. For enterprises, you can use existing Local Network Access 
>> enterprise policies in the same way you previously would have for regular 
>> Fetch API requests from service workers (see 
>> [LocalNetworkAccessRestrictionsTemporaryOptOut](
>> https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LocalNetworkAccessRestrictionsTemporaryOptOut),
>>  
>> [LocalNetworkAccessAllowedForUrls](
>> https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LocalNetworkAccessAllowedForUrls), 
>> [LoopbackNetworkAllowedForUrls](
>> https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LoopbackNetworkAllowedForUrls), 
>> [LocalNetworkAccessPermissionsPolicyDefaultEnabled](
>> https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LocalNetworkAccessPermissionsPolicyDefaultEnabled),
>>  
>> and [LocalNetworkAccessIpAddressSpaceOverrides](
>> https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LocalNetworkAccessIpAddressSpaceOverrides)).
>>  
>>
>>
>> *Blink component*
>> Blink>BackgroundFetch 
>> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3EBackgroundFetch%22>
>>
>> *Web Feature ID*
>> local-network-access 
>> <https://webstatus.dev/features/local-network-access> 
>>
>> *Motivation*
>> This fixes a security issue where Background Fetch unintentionally 
>> bypasses security policies such as Local Network Access checks. 
>>
>> *Initial public proposal*
>> *No information provided*
>>
>> *TAG review*
>> *No information provided* 
>>
>> *TAG review status*
>> Not applicable
>>
>> *Goals for experimentation*
>> None 
>>
>> *Risks*
>>
>>
>> *Interoperability and Compatibility*
>> If the service worker's origin does not yet have the requisite Local 
>> Network Access permission, the background fetch request may fail. However, 
>> overall usage of Background Fetch is extremely low. We considered 
>> completely removing the ability for Background Fetch to make local network 
>> requests, which would be more disruptive. Treating Background Fetch 
>> requests the same as fetch() calls from a service worker context was deemed 
>> an appropriate middle ground. 
>>
>> *Gecko*: Shipped/Shipping (
>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1260) Firefox is 
>> shipping LNA but does not support the BG Fetch API
>>
>> *WebKit*: No signal (
>> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/520)
>>
>> *Web developers*: No signals
>>
>> *Other signals*:
>>
>> *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? 
>> LNA checks are not enforced in WebView. 
>>
>>
>> *Debuggability*
>> *No information provided* 
>>
>> *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, 
>> Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?*
>> No 
>> LNA is not enforced in WebView. 
>>
>> *Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests 
>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>?*
>> Yes 
>>
>>
>> *Flag name on about://flags*
>> *No information provided* 
>>
>> *Finch feature name*
>> BackgroundFetchLocalNetworkAccess 
>>
>> *Rollout plan*
>> Will ship enabled for all users
>>
>> *Requires code in //chrome?*
>> False
>>
>> *Tracking bug*
>> https://crbug.com/455486148
>>
>> *Estimated milestones*
>> Shipping on desktop 154 
>> Shipping on Android 154 
>>
>> *Anticipated spec changes*
>>
>> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or 
>> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues 
>> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may 
>> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of 
>> the API in a non-backward-compatible way). 
>> None. This brings Chromium's implementation into alignment with the 
>> intent of the Background Fetch spec (which delegates security policy 
>> enforcement to the Fetch spec).
>>
>> *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status*
>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/6225598451154944?gate=6680716673941504
>>
>> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status 
>> <https://chromestatus.com>. 
>>
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