Prefetching is not allowed due to the various privacy issues that arise.

ncsuapex · 06-16-2009, 02:18 PM

So I go to this page:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Security

and click on: A Couple Quick find Tips (http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...uick_find_Tips)

and I get a page that says:

Prefetching is not allowed due to the various privacy issues that arise.

What does that mean?

unSpawn · 06-16-2009, 02:32 PM

Due to lack of client-side details it's your choice of proxying, Google prefetch (accelerator, toolbar), browser prefetch or vBulletin detecting and denying any HTTP_X_MOZ prefetching?

ncsuapex · 06-17-2009, 10:09 AM

The weird thing is.... Right after I posted this thread I decided to click on the link again and it let me go to it. Also I have occasionally gotten this error at home when I've used google to search for something and the link was to a linuxquestions.org thread. Another note on the google search is, if there was a sublink to the linuxquestions.org thread it would take me to a reply in that same thread.

I do not have any toolbar plugins, Im using standard firefox 2.0.0.16(at work, not sure what version at home)

jeremy · 06-17-2009, 10:59 AM

It looks like this is a stock vBulletin feature that only impacts logged in members:

Code:

// Google Web Accelerator can display sensitive data ignoring any headers regarding caching
// it's a good thing for guests but not for anyone else

I'm looking into this further now.

--jeremy