Now
- Lets browser wait for response while archiving page in background using new method.
- Redirects to saved page using HTTP 302 response.
Earlier (liveweb method)
- Loads preview of saved page
- Redirects to saved target page using JavaScript function.
Because some websites (e.g. Twitter) might alter their loaded content based on the browser's user agent, it would be good if the Wayback Machine manually optionally allowed setting the user agent and also seeing which user agent was used to archive which page.
(I.e. everything is like before March 10th: The Live Web proxy preview is back and passes through the user agent.)
But for files (e.g. PDF), it has always been without the Liveweb. Nothing has changed there.
(post is archived)