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Datasette serves unnecessary HTTP prefetch headers, impacting Firefox

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Simon Willison has identified an issue where Datasette serves HTTP link headers for 'rel=next' on HTML pages, causing browsers like Firefox to prefetch subsequent pages unnecessarily. This behavior, which has been a long-standing issue in Firefox for 24 years, results in wasted server resources and bandwidth. Willison noted his own past complaints about this feature from 2002, highlighting its persistent nature. AI

IMPACT Minor optimization issue for web developers and browser users.

RANK_REASON The item discusses a specific technical issue with a software product (Datasette) and its interaction with a browser (Firefox), rather than a major industry development.

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Datasette serves unnecessary HTTP prefetch headers, impacting Firefox

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages

    <p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/3046">datasette #3046: Don&#x27;t serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages</a></strong></p> I was looking at the Firefox network panel today when I noticed that requests to a Datasette table page we…

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