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		blasdel on June 3, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How HTML 5 link prefetching can make your site loa... No same-origin-policy, since you can't access the data in the response, but you could do that already with hidden iframes.

mseebach on June 3, 2010 [–]

You could stick hundreds of huge images forced to 1x1 px size.

Maybe the "annoy a minority of people with tight bandwidth-caps"-attack isn't all that big of a threat.

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