Curiouser and Curiouser! on web-protocol http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic web-protocol Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Enabling web acceleration Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:54:38 +0100 <p>I was just reading about smart spidering (a directed topic-based crawler which uses Bayesian analysis to determine which links to crawl when it expands its search) and the Google Web Accelerator problem drifted into my mind along with a practical solution.</p> <p>The default behaviour for web accelerator should be to not accelerate pages. Since we have no idea what is safe or not safe on the web this is the only safe choice.</p> <p>To control acceleration on a page-by-page basis use the meta tag, e.g.<blockquote><tt><meta name="prefetch" value="true|false"></tt></blockquote> then on a link-by-link basis this can be overridden, i.e.<blockquote><tt><a rel="prefetch" href="..."/></tt><br/><br/>or<br/><br/><tt><a rel="noprefetch" href="..."/></tt></blockquote></p> <p>A large class of applications could, very quickly, be using web acceleration safely with the addition of only one meta-tag.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002670.html