Mozilla, scripts and prefetching links problem

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   I noticed an odd problem today that (frustratingly) turned out to be 
caused by a new Mozilla option in the cache settings called "Link 
Prefetching". (Under "Tools" -> "Preferences" -> "Advanced" -> "Cache" 
-> "Link Prefetching" )

   The problem arises when it (apparently) prefetches links which 
actually call a perl script. Specifically the problem arose in my 
program's web-based file browser when I tried to browse through the 
directory tree. I would try to click on the icon to show or hide 
sub-directories (which calls the same script passing some variables in 
the URL) and it would not call the script.

   The links are in the format: 
http://url/cgi-bin/script.cgi?name=val&name=val...

   Lance suggested using forms instead of passing the values in the URL 
but the problem with that is that closing the form seems to force a line 
wrap and I have three items that need to be beside each other. I suppose 
if worse comes to worse I can create nested tables and place each form 
in a table cell but I would like to avoid that if I can.

   So the question is; given that Mozilla enables this prefetch 
automatically (at least in v1.7.3) is there any way to tell Mozilla not 
to use this (similar to the 'nocache' option) from the web page? Has 
anyone else even seen this problem? Does anyone have an alternative idea 
on how I could prevent or solve this?

Thanks!!

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