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How does Firefox implement prefetching?

Yiwei
Yiwei
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Hi,

I want to know how Firefox implement the web prefetching(not the part on how it gets and parses the fetch hint, but the part after it parsed the fetch hint, how does it fetch the objects, and store it in cache. If it didn't finish fetching, how does it send out the request to only ask for the part it doesn't get and so on). Could any one refer to me where I should look for the source code?

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I want to know how Firefox implement the web prefetching(not the part on how it gets and parses the fetch hint, but the part after it parsed the fetch hint, how does it fetch the objects, and store it in cache. If it didn't finish fetching, how does it send out the request to only ask for the part it doesn't get and so on). Could any one refer to me where I should look for the source code? Thanks in advance!

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Hello,

I think that the code you want is located here: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/uriloader/prefetch/nsPrefetchService.cpp.

If you have more questions, please ask the Firefox team in the #fx-team channel on Moznet.

(For recommended IRC clients, please read https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC#Pick_an_IRC_client)

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Joshua Smith
Joshua Smith
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Hello,

I think that the code you want is located here: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/uriloader/prefetch/nsPrefetchService.cpp.

If you have more questions, please ask the Firefox team in the #fx-team channel on Moznet.

(For recommended IRC clients, please read https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC#Pick_an_IRC_client)