Addition of the response.body property to the Fetch API. response.body is a ReadableStream from the Streams Standard.

Demo

• https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/fetch-api/fetch-response-stream.html

Documentation

• https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/35_QSL1ABTY
• https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/#rs
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API

Specification

Specification link

Status: Specification currently under development in a Working Group

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Network>FetchAPI

Implementation status: Enabled by default (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web Developers: Strongly positive

Owner

• yhirano@chromium.org

Comments

In the future response.body will be upgraded to a ReadableStream with an underlying byte source in backward compatible way.

Last updated on 2022-01-14