Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Way back when I was running whendoze (around 10 years ago), I had a
shareware program called File Hound. One of the many features that I
liked about that program is that if I had it running while browsing the
internet, and I right click on something and choose "copy link
location", File Hound would take it from there and fetch the object of
that link, in the background, while I continued surfing. It even cached
subsequent links and got to them as soon as it could.
IIRC, FasterFox had an "aggressive" setting that would do this.
This kind of aggressive prefetching is frowned upon for a couple of
reasons. The primary one is that it consumes a lot of server bandwidth
that the user quite often doesn't follow up. Basically, if everybody
starts prefetching, your bandwidth goes up 10x with no increase in
anything else which would help you pay for it.
Some sites started monitoring it and would actually block your IP for a
few minutes if they detected you doing it.
-a
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