html prefetching

 CacheFlow is using technique to speedup whole web page
 fetch by snooping into initially loaded .html and looking
 for tags that would instruct browser to start fetching other
 components, like gifs, java scripts, etc.
 Now instead of waiting for the browser to initiate fetch for
 each and every component, CF speculatively starts the fetch
 for these itself. Ideally, by the time browser fetches the
 next component, it is already in cache, and served at full
 client speed.
 More than that, CF initiates multiple connections to the
 origin server, to reduce delays with parallel fetches.
 In overall, user perceives web surfing as much faster.

 I believe that assumtion that tags found in html would be
 fetched shortly has very high probability of being true.

 What thoughts you have about hacking such feature into squid?

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 Andres Kroonmaa <andre@online.ee>
 Network Development Manager
 Delfi Online
 Tel: 6501 731, Fax: 6501 708
 Pärnu mnt. 158, Tallinn,
 11317 Estonia
Received on Fri Jun 02 2000 - 15:24:16 MDT