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ncsuapex 06-16-2009 02:18 PM
Prefetching is not allowed due to the various privacy issues that arise.
 
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


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