Re: LYNX-DEV Making lynx faster - a la Netjet

[Andrew Kuchling]

> Netjet is a Netscape plugin which starts to download the links from any
> page as soon as it possible. Therefore, while you are reading a page, the
> next is loading.

        No!  This is a *very* bad idea; consider a site like the
Internet Movie Database at www.imdb.com.  At the IMDB, there are many
links which point to CGI scripts that do a database search for an
actor or movie; NetJet tries to download them all these links ahead of
time, triggering many unnecessary database searches and causing the
load on the servers to explode.  The IMDB now denies accesses from
NetJet agents, I believe.

        Someone on Usenet claims that the WebTV browser supports a new
<LINK> tag which gives the URL of the probable next page, so the
browser can start downloading it now.  Somewhat better, since it gives
the author of the pages control, but probably only useful for very
linear sequences of documents.


        Andrew Kuchling
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