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Early hints requests do not appear in HAR
On a page with verified early hints requests we can see requests initiated by early hints:
Running that page with npx browsertime --chrome.collectPerfLog -n 1 $URL
and inspecting the HAR we can see:
- Link headers on the main document indicating that early hint requests should be made
-
No early hints requests are present, e.g.: no
.css
requests - SVG requests initiated by
.css
stylesheets
Inspecting the devtools log I can see that the request made to master-cb9e9afd3d.css
(request ID: 87395.8) has the expected Network.requestWillBeSent
, Network.responseReceived
, Network.dataReceived
, Network.loadingFinished
events.
Curiously, I noticed that both fromDiskCache
and fromEarlyHints
are both true
on the Network.responseReceived
request:
In checking entryFromResponse.js
we can see that fromDiskCache
and __servedFromCache
are used to gate functionality:
https://github.com/sitespeedio/chrome-har/blob/2006c4dce0971180b023dda3fe7c0cd085efeadf/lib/entryFromResponse.js#L93
https://github.com/sitespeedio/chrome-har/blob/2006c4dce0971180b023dda3fe7c0cd085efeadf/lib/entryFromResponse.js#L180
I suspect we'll want to check request entries to see if they've been loaded by early request hints.
In case we need it, there's a Network.responseReceivedEarlyHints
event.