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 # window.fetch polyfill
 
+This is a fork of [GitHub's fetch polyfill](https://github.com/github/fetch). Its purpose is to get [the fetch polyfill used in React Native](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/Libraries/Network/fetch.js) closer to the `whatwg` spec without worrying about breaking older browser versions.
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+For more context, see [the `github/fetch` issue](https://github.com/github/fetch/issues/746) and [the `react-native` issue](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/27741).
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 The `fetch()` function is a Promise-based mechanism for programmatically making
 web requests in the browser. This project is a polyfill that implements a subset
-of the standard [Fetch specification][], enough to make `fetch` a viable
+of the standard [fetch specification](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API), enough to make `fetch` a viable
 replacement for most uses of XMLHttpRequest in traditional web applications.
 
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