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Re: Which type of network access for this situation?

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On 18th April in the Year of Our Lord 2017, the illustrious
bit-naughty@hotmail.com whose email address is alleged to be
<bit-naughty@hotmail.com> did communicate, write, or otherwise
convey the following missive:
> On Monday, April 17, 2017 at 8:13:17 PM UTC-5, Stefan Weiss wrote:
>> The OP also wrote "download some stuff [...] _and_display_it_", which I
>> understood to mean "fetch with JS and insert into the current document". If
>> this interpretation is correct, neither `window.location = ..` nor a meta
>> refresh will do what he needs.
>
> Yes, that IS what I meant. Let me be clearer about the whole thing -
> suppose there is a "Page 1" full of stuff. It has a "Next Page", i.e
> page 2 link on it. While the user is *reading* page 1, I want the
> text for page 2 to download in the background - and then be
> displayed immediately as soon as "Next Page" is clicked!! Could you
> give me some pointers as to how to go about this? I do the AJAX call
> to get the text for Page 2 as soon as Page 1 is downloaded, right?

Sounds like you don't need JavaScript at all and actually want
prefetch:

    <link rel="prefetch" href="page2.html"> 

https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/

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Which type of network access for this situation? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-04-17 11:53 -0700
  Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-18 00:57 +0100
  Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 01:57 +0200
    Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-04-18 02:52 +0200
      Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 03:13 +0200
        Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-04-18 05:40 +0200
        Re: Which type of network access for this situation? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-04-18 08:22 -0700
          Re: Which type of network access for this situation? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-04-18 08:28 -0700
          Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2017-04-18 16:08 +0000
            Re: Which type of network access for this situation? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-04-19 23:44 -0700
              Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2017-04-20 10:15 +0000
                Re: Which type of network access for this situation? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-04-20 12:56 +0200
  Re: Which type of network access for this situation? maherrj@googlemail.com - 2017-04-17 17:23 -0700
  Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 03:29 +0200

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