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

Summary by Cyber Security News8 Nov 2026, 00:57 CET

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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: ; rel="next" This is bad.

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