[Seaside-dev] Re: Enabling cookies causes callback links to incorrectly redirect in Firefox

[Nick Ager]

Thank Lukas

> That was a tricky one:
>
> Unfortunately the Mozilla engine does prefetching of some "random"
> links on websites
> (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Link_prefetching_FAQ). This
> aggressive prefixing is a highly controversial topic even in the
> FireFox community itself, because of all kinds of issues.
>
> Now obviously this prefetching is generally something we don't want to
> happen with Seaside applications as callbacks could unwillingly be
> triggered. I changed the Seaside code to deny all prefetch requests in
> WAApplication. This should solve the problem:

I still don't yet understand why in this specific case the callback
redirects to the 'wrong' url. However I worked around the problem by
removing the <link rel="next"> from my subclass of PRPierFrame