It is important to put the information provider in control of the question of pre-fetching permission. Hmm, after a little thought, it seems like an even smoother solution wold be to leave pre-fetching up to the server completely … It may be both a protocol and UI challenge to model the act of a server “throwing” unrequested content at a client…perhaps left for HTTP-NG?
Predictor: Behlendorf, Brian
Prediction, in context:In an online group discussion about technical issues, Brian Behlendorf writes: ”It is important to put the information provider in control of the question of pre-fetching permission. Hmm, after a little thought, it seems like an even smoother solution wold be to leave pre-fetching up to the server completely. I.e., if someone requests a page from my server, I return to them not only that page but the first n bytes (for all) of each subpage in a multi-part message. That leaves it up to me, the page designer/server administrator, to decide exactly what parts of my site can be optimized in such a way, and it lets me tune the prefetching algorithms to my liking. It may be both a protocol and UI challenge to model the act of a server ‘throwing’ unrequested content at a client…perhaps left for HTTP-NG?”
Biography:Brian Behlendorf was a key innovator in the development of Web commerce. At the outset of the 1990s, he was chief engineer at Wired magazine’s inception and later helped start up HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites. He spent 1993-98 as co-founder and CTO at Organic Online, one of the first Web design and engineering consulting firms. While there, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling language) effort, and assisted several IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: December 18, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Prefetching Attribute
Title, headline, chapter name: Prefetching Attribute
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://groups.google.com/groups/q=Brian=Behlendorf=and-1995&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
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