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List:       squid-dev
Subject:    Re: html prefetching
From:       matthew <matthew () home ! yak ! org>
Date:       2000-06-30 16:20:42
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0006301118240.17467-100000 () home ! yak ! org
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> What I am proposing is to prefetch links referenced by SRC and nothing else. 
> These links are automatically requested on user's behalf, so if they are 
> expensive, users can't avoid it anyway unless they abort. Anyway, based on my 
> observation, usually normal web sites are nice enough that they won't put 
> "expensive" objects in those references.

Are they really requested automatically even if the user has automatic
image viewing turned off, or is using Lynx?  I realize these are unusual
circumstances in this day, but it might be simplistic to say they're
automatically fetched.

That being said, I can't determine any _better_ generalization, and this
seems to be the only case in which prefetching might be good for the
majority of users, if performance and fairness issues are worked out.

> Hope this clarifies a bit.
> 
> Thanx
> Yee Man


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