Currently http cache uses an old mechanism to detect when it should force enable simple disk_cache instead of the older blockfile cache. Its doing this by string comparisons looking for "ExperimentYes" groups in a "SimpleCacheTrial" experiment.
The metrics owners have asked that we upgrade this mechanism to use a feature if we expect to continue to use it.
In the most recent finch experiment we have added a "forward compatible" feature called "HttpCacheForceBackend". It has a "BackendType" param that looks for "simple" in order to force simple disk_cache.
This bug is to make the chromium code actually use this feature.