Adds support for <link rel="preconnect" href="..."> (and the equivalent HTTP link header) as a hint that the browser should predictively open a connection to the supplied server/protocol for resources that will be needed later in the loading process.
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Specification being incubated in a Community Group
Status in Chromium
Enabled by default
(tracking bug)
Consensus & Standardization
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- In development
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preconnect,Last updated on 2020-11-09
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There is some leeway on the actual preconnect and it is treated as a hint. In particular, the number of connections is left to the browser to decide. In cases where Chrome already has predictor information we may choose to ignore the preconnect hint entirely and use the historical knowledge we have from the predictor.