Request: keepalive property

The keepalive read-only property of the Request interface contains the request's keepalive setting (true or false), which indicates whether the browser will keep the associated request alive if the page that initiated it is unloaded before the request is complete.

This enables a fetch() request to function as an alternative to Navigator.sendBeacon() when sending analytics at the end of a session, which has some advantages (you can use HTTP methods other than POST, customize request properties, and access the server response via the fetch Promise fulfillment). It is also available in service workers.

Value

A boolean value indicating the keepalive status of the request.

Examples

In the following snippet, we create a new request using the Request() constructor with keepalive set to true, then save the keepalive value of the request in a variable:

js
const options = {
  keepalive: true,
};

const myRequest = new Request("flowers.jpg", options);
let myKeepAlive = myRequest.keepalive; // true

Specifications

Specification
Fetch Standard
# ref-for-dom-request-keepalive②

Browser compatibility

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See also