This sounds like this should be solved with either the 'Prefer: return=minimal' header, or (probably the better choice) content-negotation using Accept. On 2021-11-24 12:08, Soni L. wrote: > It would be potentially useful to have an HTTP PREVIEW method. > Consider for example this mastodon issue: > https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/4486 > > Here's what happens when a wiki has to generate a full page: > > 1. Parse cookies > 2. Get user data > 3. Get page contents > 4. Resolve "redlinks" (links within the wiki that refer to nonexistent > pages) > 5. Create Table of Contents > 6. Format full page > 7. Etc > > Here's what it'd do with an HTTP PREVIEW: > > 1. Get page contents > 2. Trim it down to some arbitrary but small length > 3. Create a simplified HTML that contains all the relevant data in the > <head>, and an empty <body>. > > Given how much less work this would involve for the server, it could > help a lot with the above issue. As a bonus, HTTP PREVIEW could even > be specced to accept the #anchor part, providing for even better previews. >Received on Wednesday, 24 November 2021 18:45:55 UTC
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