Accept-CH-Lifetime support for requesting client hints

Client Hints enables user agents to provide device-specific preferences in the HTTP request headers. Accept-CH-Lifetime adds a client hint that allow origins to persist their opt-in policy for a specified period so they can receive client hints on main frame requests. Additionally, on the first page load, this feature provides hints for all subresources of the page. This is expected to be enabled by default in Chrome 67.

Demo

• https://bit.ly/client-hints-demo

Documentation

• https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2018JanMar/0235.html

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Loader

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 67
• Chrome for Android release 67

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No public signals
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: Positive

Owners

• tbansal@chromium.org
• igrigorik@chromium.org
• bengr@chromium.org

Last updated on 2018-04-16