[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 91964] Add "webkitBackgroundRequest" property to XMLHttpRequest

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91964





--- Comment #4 from Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org>  2012-07-23 09:25:20 PST ---
(From update of attachment 153748)
View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=153748&action=review

I'm not sure I understand the use case.  We should just stop XMLHttpRequest from poping up HTTP auth dialogs all the time.

> Source/WebCore/platform/network/ResourceRequestBase.h:194
> +        bool m_loadInBackground : 1;

You can't add state to ResourceRequestBase that can't be represented in an NSURLRequest.  Yes, that's lame, but it's a current design constraint.

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