Re: html prefetching

On 2 Jun 2000, at 17:41, Duane Wessels <wessels@ircache.net> wrote:

> > What thoughts you have about hacking such feature into squid?
>
> I'm skeptical.
>
> Do you know if it actually makes pages load faster?
> Or did they just tell you that it does?

 it does. anywhere from 30-400% in my case. in theory
 even more.

> It would not be a trival hack. Deciding which
> objects to prefetch is somewhat complicated I think.

 <IMG SRC=...>
 absolutely enough for a start.

> There's a great risk of pissing off content providers
> with aggressive prefetching. I know of at least one
> large site that to this day blocks requests that come from
> "Microsoft Catapult" which is/was their early
> prefetching proxy.

 not heard, but wasn't it the kind of piece that went to
 download the whole site just in case?

> I don't know if anyone blocks requests from cacheflow.
> It would really suck if people started blocking
> requests from Squid.

 hey, how are they going to blame you? they give out html
 that has these tags that ask you to go and fetch all the
 crap, so we did it, (in fact, maybe the browser did?),
 whats wrong with that?

 I don't think such minor prefetching would piss off anyone.

 Just don't confuse this prefetching with other techniques
 that try to be smart-ass and intelligently prefetch
 parts or whole site to local storage.

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 Andres Kroonmaa <andre@online.ee>
 Network Development Manager
 Delfi Online
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Received on Fri Jun 02 2000 - 17:56:46 MDT