WYCIWYG

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WYCIWYG is an acronym for What You Cache Is What You Get. It is a URI scheme specific to the Mozilla family of web browsers which indicates that a link should be preferentially fetched from cache instead of from the web server.

The acronym is inspired by WYSIWYG but the concepts are unrelated.

The wyciwyg:// protocol can sometimes be seen in the address bar of Gecko/Mozilla based browsers during Java/JavaScript errors, mid-script aborts, etc. Generally, direct or manually entered wyciwyg:// scheme links will not work because of cache age information.