[Fasterfox] Website complains about prefetching

[Tony Gentilcore]

Hugo -

Here's a link to the beta version of Fasterfox 1.0.0 which will contain the
whitelist.  Feel free to give it a whirl if you like.

http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/beta.html

Regards,
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: liam321 at 123mail.org [mailto:liam321 at 123mail.org] 
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:04 PM
To: Tony Gentilcore; fasterfox at mozdev.org
Subject: RE: [Fasterfox] Website complains about prefetching


On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:31:56 -0600, "Tony Gentilcore" <gentilac at slu.edu>
said:
> Hi Hugo,
> 
> Thanks for forwarding this message.  Several other users have mentioned
> it
> as well.

Oh, sorry for the duplicate then, I tried to search the archives but
must have missed..

> 
> Apparently some webmasters aren't as happy as the websurfers are about
> speeding up web browsing.  For this reason, I'm working on a "whitelist"
> feature that will allow certain websites to be excluded from prefetching.
> 
> Please stay tuned and I will let you know when this version is available.
> For now, the best solution to this problem is to select the "custom"
> option
> and disable the "Enhanced Prefetching" feature.

Allright, will do, thanks a lot!

Just out of curiosity, are those people right? Is there some standard
(RFC spec etc) that says that only links with a "link marker" (what is
that?) should/may be prefetched?

Regards 
Hugo

> 
> Tony
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fasterfox-bounces at mozdev.org [mailto:fasterfox-bounces at mozdev.org]
> On
> Behalf Of liam321 at 123mail.org
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 3:09 AM
> To: fasterfox at mozdev.org
> Subject: [Fasterfox] Website complains about prefetching
> 
> Good day all, 
> 
> Just wanted to let you know: I used http://www.dnsstuff.com/ to lookup
> an IP-address (using the form saying "Reverse DNS lookup Enter IP/IPv6
> (or host name)". When I hit the submit button, the following message
> appeared: 
> 
> <quote>
> FORBIDDEN: Pre-fetching abuses our website.
> 
> If you are using the FireFox extension 'FasterFox', it is very poor and
> will block you from websites that it abuses. Please uninstall it (and
> perhaps add a comment to the FasterFox page. If you are not running it,
> you are running some sort of poor extension that pre-fetches pages that
> it shouldn't (ones without a 'link' marker). Once you have done this,
> you can re-load this page. Note that if you do not remove the rogue
> program, you will continue to see this message occasionally.
> 
> If everyone did this, it could easily quadruple the load on our server.
> </quote>
> 
> Using "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5" (Firefox 1.5 RC3) and Fasterfox 0.7.9. 
> 
> Note: The Fasterfox setting I used was "Optimized". So it seems that
> they think that only links with "a link marker"(?) should be prefetched
> (according to some spec somewhere?).
> 
> Regards
> Hugo Heden
> 
> 
> 
> 
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