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Bug 23799 - [Streams API] Feature req: in-band control signal
Summary: [Streams API] Feature req: in-band control signal
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Streams API (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Takeshi Yoshino
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
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Reported: 2013-11-12 08:54 UTC by Takeshi Yoshino
Modified: 2013-11-12 08:54 UTC (History)
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Description Takeshi Yoshino 2013-11-12 08:54:00 UTC
Request from Aymeric to make it able to transfer signals that can be distinguished from ordinary byte stream.

For example, we can have TextDecoder understand such a signal. When TextDecoder sees a signal, it flushes decodable bytes preceding the signal in its buffer as a DOMString while keeping non-decodable bytes in the buffer.

His use case is making hash calculator to emit partial hash when received such a signal.