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Now Fetch exposes a request's authentication flag we can control this better. Going forward we may want to have flags for 304 and cookie handling in general too. A property per flag is probably fine.
disable401Handling & disable304Handling are favorites.
Fetch so far has a far more complicated cache story than a single flag. I suspect any new XMLHttpRequest are more or less dead.
fetch() does this already.