Re: [FEATURE REMOVAL v6.0.0] Prefetch and prefetch.config

[Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org>]

> On Apr 28, 2015, at 12:43 AM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote:
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>> On Apr 21, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote:
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>> There’s a feature in ATS, which is poorly understood, and unsupported, which intends to fetch content based on parsing HTML. It’s our belief that this is either better done via either of
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>> 	1) HTTP/2 and the LinkRel headers. Server PUSH might also help or eliminate the need for this.
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>> 	2) An external piece of software (or ATS plugin). For example, the Pagespeed plugin could do this.
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>> Eliminating this feature would also remove the configuration file prefetch.config.
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>> This is tracked in the Jira
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>> 	https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-3167
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>> Unless we hear otherwise within 1 week, this will be implemented for 6.0.0.
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> No objections have been made to this, so we will proceed with this proposal.


I’m going to make a small change to this. We will remove this as a feature (config etc.), but I’m going to leave the code mostly intact. The reason for this is that I think there could be reasons to repurpose some of this code for H2 and PUSH promises.

— Leif