From "OK" to "". See https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/pull/836 and https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/14144 for tests. The rationale is that few folks will set this field and therefore it'll likely be wrong whenever a non-200 status is used. And "reason phrase" as HTTP calls it is a more or less obsolete field anyway.
yhirano@ Can do this without an intent, since it is a minor-enough API change?
Can we*
I think a simple PSA to blink-dev@ is enough.
The following revision refers to this bug: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/b14651e72d58546d1643708d335672034654b843 commit b14651e72d58546d1643708d335672034654b843 Author: Dominic Farolino <domfarolino@gmail.com> Date: Fri Nov 30 16:02:47 2018 Change ResponseInit default statusText From "OK" => "", as per the spec change https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/pull/836. R=yhirano@chromium.org, yoav@yoav.ws Bug: 907441 Change-Id: Id58718ecdba49432078358c20d62df5ff0eda8f8 Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/1348739 Commit-Queue: Dominic Farolino <domfarolino@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Yutaka Hirano <yhirano@chromium.org> Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#612662} [modify] https://crrev.com/b14651e72d58546d1643708d335672034654b843/third_party/blink/renderer/core/fetch/response_init.idl [modify] https://crrev.com/b14651e72d58546d1643708d335672034654b843/third_party/blink/web_tests/external/wpt/fetch/api/response/response-clone-expected.txt [delete] https://crrev.com/8e0a3712a2b2c7409d224747c10e3f6d56c41bad/third_party/blink/web_tests/external/wpt/fetch/api/response/response-init-001-expected.txt [modify] https://crrev.com/b14651e72d58546d1643708d335672034654b843/third_party/blink/web_tests/http/tests/fetch/script-tests/response.js
Comment 1 by domfarolino@gmail.com
, Nov 21Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)