Puppeteer: Can I tell the web-server to not send resources?

Question

I know that I can intercept the requests and exclude processing of certain types of resources: images, media, etc. As far as I understand, this only reduces work on my local machine.

var browser = await Puppeteer.LaunchAsync(options, null);
var page = await browser.NewPageAsync();

...

await page.SetRequestInterceptionAsync(true);
page.Request += (sender, e) => {
    switch (e.Request.ResourceType) {
        case ResourceType.Image:
        case ResourceType.ImageSet:
        case ResourceType.Media:
        case ResourceType.Font:
            e.Request.AbortAsync();
            break;
        default:
            e.Request.ContinueAsync();
            break;
    }
};

Is there a way to somehow tell the server not to waste time preparing these resources so that the answer comes to me earlier?

Just for context, here's an example of how I navigate to a page and want to speed up the process:

var url = "https://...";
var timeout = 100000;

var response = await page.GoToAsync(url, timeout, 
    new WaitUntilNavigation[] { WaitUntilNavigation.Networkidle2 }
);

Answer 1

If you have control in server side,you can design a couple of RESTful APIs. Then you'll send json data and receive json data.

If you don't, you may try http Accept header. e.g Accept: text/*

Reference:

• How do I set multiple custom HTTP headers in puppeteer?
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Content_negotiation
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types