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Should hint-initiated requests be identifiable by the server? #16

Closed igrigorik closed 10 years ago

igrigorik commented 10 years ago

That is, should these requests carry an extra Reason header? What are the benefits and use cases, and what are the downsides?

GET /page-2.html
Reason: prerender

GET /other.html
Reason: prefetch

GET /logo.webp
Reason: preload
igrigorik commented 10 years ago

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=86175 - wontfix, closing.