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		underdown on Aug 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter's t.co uses meta tags and JS instead of 30... serving up a full HTML page seems a lot more expensive than returning a header

jrockway on Aug 21, 2011 | [–]

But it's better for the privacy of your users. Just because you have a website that I've visited doesn't mean you're entitled to my browsing history.

keeperofdakeys on Aug 21, 2011 | [–]

I'm pretty sure only one http message is needed to send both html headers and html content, which makes the only draw back a slight lag of the client rendering the page.

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