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Re:Ask HN: Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request? by riobard on Monday December 19, 2016 @10:25AM (#13211942)
Why keeping the original source in memory? Why not saving it to disk?
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Re:Ask HN: Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request? by criddell on Monday December 19, 2016 @10:47AM (#13212084)
Maybe because it would prematurely age SSDs?
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Re:Ask HN: Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request? by arpa on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:08AM (#13219870)
like anybody gives a damn about that. Spotify for sure doesn't.
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