Re: Request Speculation (Response Prediction)

hey y'all, can we make this into an april fools rfc yet? (tho, this 
seems like it would be somewhat difficult to turn into a proper april 
fools rfc...)

On 2023-08-14 13:32, Soni L. wrote:
> Let's say your server is sending a redirect to another page on the 
> same server
>
> GET /whatever HTTP/1.1
> ...
>
> 302 Found
> Location: /something
>
>
> Instead of waiting for the client to send the follow-up request, why 
> not just send it straight away?
>
> 302 Found
> Location: /actually
>
>
> 200 OK
> ...
>
> This is different from server push in that it relies on making 
> assumptions about how the client behaves, and it works with HTTP/1.1 
> too. The User-Agent header and some other fingerprinting techniques 
> might be necessary for sending the right thing tho.

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