Re: implications of preloaded script pages?

Hello CC, (CZ == "CC Zona") cczona@nospam.invalid writes: CZ> The newest "pre-release" release of the iCab browser includes this CZ> in its "new features" list: CZ> <excerpt> " In the 'file' menu there's now a new entry CZ> "Prefetch". CZ> If this entry is checked, iCab does load all the links of the CZ> currently displayed page in the background (only the HTML files, CZ> no images). iCab starts loading the links as soon as the current CZ> page has finished loading and stops as soon as you open a new page CZ> (that means iCab does only load the links while iCab is idle). CZ> This can speed up opening the links later, because the file is CZ> probably already in the cache when you open it. " </excerpt> CZ> Could visitors' use of such a feature affect my site adversely? CZ> Say that they're visiting a page with links to several script CZ> pages which modify a database in various ways; just by visiting CZ> Page A would they be unintenionally triggering modifications by CZ> linked Pages B, C, and D even though that was never their intent CZ> (nor mine)? I realize browsers preload images all the time. But I CZ> wasn't sure if this notion of preloading linked HTML was new news CZ> or old. They may have the sort of stopgap measure for things like that -- sort of like search engines/spiders act when they see a ? or & in the URLs for dynamic sites. -Brian