Re: Canceling pending getUserMedia() call

Indeed. This seems to be a more complicated topic than one might wish:

https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/27



On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
wrote:

> Den 24. april 2015 20:02, skrev Cullen Jennings (fluffy):
> >
> > Just popping this up to top of stack - it did not seem we have figured
> out how to resolve this yet and I will note it has been opened as
> >
> > https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-main/issues/127
>
>
> It is noted.
>
> The conclusion from the discussion was that the common desire was for
> cancellation not timeout, but that there was that there is no common
> pattern defined in the W3C ecosystem for cancelling a promise yet.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 27, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi, let's assume that during a call/session a peer wants to add his
> >> local video so gUM is called. But before he accepts the gUM prompt the
> >> call/session is ended by the remote peer.
> >>
> >> Is there anyway to make the pending gUM prompt to disappear? I mean:
> >> without waiting for the user to press "Accept" and then ignoring and
> >> closing the given MediaStream.
> >>
> >> In that scenario and given that the user does know that the
> >> call/session has ended, he may prefer to click on "Deny" (why to open
> >> my webcam when the call has already ended?), which would cause the
> >> website to get into the gUM blacklist of the browser.
> >>
> >> Found nothing in the spec.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Iñaki Baz Castillo
> >> <ibc@aliax.net>
> >>
> >>
> >
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