Cherrypy - prevent browser "prefetch"?

[Israel Brewster]

I don't know if this is a cherrypy specific question (although it will be implemented in cherrypy for sure), or more of a general http protocol question, but when using cherrypy to serve a web app, is there anyway to prevent browser prefetch? I'm running to a problem, specifically from Safari on the Mac, where I start to type a URL, and Safari auto-fills the rest of a random URL matching what I started to type, and simultaneously sends a request for that URL to my server, occasionally causing unwanted effects.

For example, I have a URL on my Cherrypy app that updates some local caches. It is accessed at http://<server>/admin/updatecaches So if I start typing http://<server>/a, for example, safari may auto-fill the "dmin/updatecaches", and trigger a cache refresh on the server - even though I was just trying to get to the main admin page at /admin. Or, it might auto-fill "uth/logout" instead (http://<server>/auth/logout), and log me out of my session. While the former may be acceptable (after all, a cache update, even if not strictly needed, is at least non-harmfull), the latter could cause serious issues with usability. So how can cherrypy tell the difference between the "prefetch" and an actual request, and not respond to the prefetch?
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Israel Brewster
Systems Analyst II
Ravn Alaska
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
(907) 450-7293
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