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A comment on Ask HN: Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request?.

Re:Ask HN: Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request? by f0code on Monday December 19, 2016 @12:00PM (#13212820)
The html returned from the already performed HTTP action has been consumed, rendering the view in the browser. If you want to view the raw HTML instead, 'View Source' requests another copy of it, but does not render it.
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