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datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages

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datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages I was looking at the Firefox network panel today when I noticed that requests to a Datasette table page were triggering an HTTP prefetch to the next page of rows in that table. This was happening because Datasette pages serve an HTTP link header like this: link: <https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/compound_three_primary_keys?_next=a%2Cd%2Cv>; rel="next" This is bad. A tiny fraction of the visitors to one of those pages will click the "next" link, which means their browser is fetching unnecessary data and the D

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