Prefetching

This page describe prefetching method of wcol. "Prefetching" means that program transform resources before user requests. That reduce response time.

Imagine using WWW. People access resource via anchors in page. Browser send request for that resources to server(or proxy). So, a large number of request was issued from anchor in page. Wcol guess prefetching targets by parsing anohors from page.

Prefetching system needs prefetching for in-line images, because many browser send requests of in-line image.

Basic Algorithm

begin anchor_set := SeekAnchor(base_page); foreach A in anchor_set do begin Get(A); included_set := SeekIncluded(A); foreach I in included_set do begin Get(I); end; end; end. NOTE: "base_page" is reqeusted page from browser.