Google Web Accelerator
Google Web Accelerator is a web accelerator
produced by Google. It uses data compression and prefetching of content
which may be cached on Google's servers to speed up page load times. The
beta, released on May 4, 2005 works with both Mozilla Firefox and
Internet Explorer on Windows machines.
Technical Issues
While the Web Accelerator works well on public websites, it
can be damaging to Administrative Web applications. By prefetching the
accelerator also activates "delete" or "cancel" links. It also ignores
JavaScript confirmations and performs the action without user confirmation.
This is an issue for web applications that use regular href attributes that
reference URLs that have side effects when using HTTP GET. Instead, web
applications should use form buttons which use the HTTP POST command for
links that cause side effects.
There was controversy over the Google Accelerator as some
users found that their personal website cookies were being shared to other
users. This meant that some users found pages such as forum control panels
of other users containing personal information appearing and that is was
possible to spoof post as those other users. Secure websites were unaffected
as the Google Accelerator did not scan sites protected by https.
It is thought that this was the reason the Google Accelerator was taken
down; however, Google cited on the Google Accelerator website that it was
taken down because their servers had reached their maximum capacity.
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