[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 37057] [chromium] Adding hasUserGesture flag to the ResourceRequest

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37057





--- Comment #16 from Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google) <fishd at chromium.org>  2010-11-04 15:11:41 PST ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> > I suspect a better solution (for this field as well as a number of other ResourceRequest fields) 
> > would be to add support for an opaque 'user data' field on ResourceRequest so that we can tag
> >  it with an external structure.  This would clean things up considerably.
> 
> I agree that this would probably be an improvement, but the ultimate goal should be for loader to not know about Web platform concepts at all, not to change the way they are passed into it.

I disagree.  We derive a lot of benefits from passing this information to our resource loading layer in Chromium.  For one thing, it avoids the need to route data through WebKit when we need to download a file to disk.  I'd be happy to discuss this topic further with you in another forum.

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