Chrome removed support for multipart/x-mixed-replace main resources in this 
issue:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=249132 
<https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=249132>

Here’s their explanation:

> This feature is extremely rarely used by web sites and is the source of a lot 
> of complexity and security bugs in the loader.  UseCounter stats from the 
> stable channel indicate that the feature is used for less than 0.00001% of 
> page loads.


They made main resources that use multipart/x-mixed-replace trigger downloads 
instead of being displayed.

The observation that multipart/x-mixed-replace support introduces a lot of 
complexity is absolutely true for us as well. It’s a huge mess.

Looks like this patch landed in Chromium on June 13, 2013 and has stuck since 
then, so removing it has not resulted in a disaster for Chrome. With so few 
people using multipart/x-mixed-replace, and since now both IE and Chrome do not 
support it, I suggest that we remove support for it from the docloader as well.

- Seth
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