Request: duplex property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The duplex read-only property of the Request interface returns the duplex mode of the request, which determines whether the browser must send the entire request before processing the response.

Value

A string with the following possible value:

"half"

The browser must send the entire request before processing the response.

Notes

Although duplex can be passed as an option when constructing a Request, it is not currently exposed as a readable property on the resulting Request object in all browsers.

Examples

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Checking a request's duplex mode

js
const stream = new ReadableStream({
  /* ... */
});
const request = new Request("/upload", {
  method: "POST",
  body: stream,
  duplex: "half", // Required for streaming requests
});

console.log(request.duplex); // "half"

Specifications

Specification
Fetch>
# dom-request-duplex>

Browser compatibility

See also