Intent to Prototype & Ship: Clear Client Hints via Clear-Site-Data header
Ari Chivukula
Contact emails
ari...@chromium.org, mike...@chromium.org, yoav...@chromium.org
Specification
https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-clear-site-data/
Summary
Websites will now be able to clear the client hints cache using `Clear-Site-Data: “clientHints”`. Client hints will also now be cleared when “cookies”, “cache”, or “*” are targeted by the same header. This is because if the user clears cookies in the UI client hints are already cleared as well, the client hints cache is a cache, and to be consistent with wildcard targets respectively.
Blink component
Motivation
The only current way for a website to force the client hint cache to be cleared is to send a single header like `Accept-CH:` with no content. If any other `Accept-CH:` headers are sent at all (empty or not) this will cause all of them to be ignored. If the `Accept-CH` header is injected into an HTTP response at multiple points, it can be difficult to silence them all when one part of the server wishes to clear all hints. This header provides a way to do that, as the `Clear-Site-Data: “clientHints”` header clears the cache and causes all other `Accept-Ch` or `Critical-CH` headers to be ignored.
TAG review
https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/871
Compatibility & Interoperability
We would be the first to implement if approved.
Gecko: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/848
WebKit: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/230
Web Developers: Requested by Akamai
Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
https://wpt.fyi/results/client-hints/clear-site-data?label=experimental&label=master&aligned
Tracking bug
Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5105030738214912
Rick Byers
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Ari Chivukula
Daniel Bratell
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