Bug 522 - Disallow Attempts To Prefetch Pages
Summary: Disallow Attempts To Prefetch Pages
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: E3
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ui-main (show other bugs)
Version: trunk
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
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Assignee: Richard Harms
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Reported: 2007-11-17 12:14 CST by Richard Harms
Modified: 2017-07-15 11:04 CDT (History)
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Description Richard Harms 2007-11-17 12:14:07 CST
http://webaccelerator.google.com/webmasterhelp.html

"Google Web Accelerator only prefetches links that should have no side effects. According to the HTTP 1.1 specification, the GET method is defined as a Safe Method which "SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval." In practice, Google Web Accelerator does not prefetch links which have query parameters (i.e. have a "?" in the URL) and encrypted pages (i.e. URL starting with https://)."

"Prefetch requests include an "x-moz: prefetch" HTTP header. Websites can choose to filter out prefetch requests in their server statistics, as well as reject prefetch requests, which would cause the request to be sent only when a user actually clicks on a link. Please read the additional FAQ below for more on how to differentiate prefetch requests in server statistics."

"You can also configure your server to refuse prefetch requests by returning a 403 HTTP response code for requests which include an "x-moz: prefetch" header."