[webkit-dev] About bypassing caches for URLs listed in Fallback and/or Network section in a HTML5 Offline Web Application

[Lianghui Chen]

> As I mentioned in the bug, the resource can be served with pragma no- 
> store. In that case, there will be no expired resource in the cache.

Will WebKit cache respect the cache-controls in http headers?

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Proskuryakov [mailto:ap at webkit.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:27 PM
To: Lianghui Chen
Cc: Maciej Stachowiak; webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] About bypassing caches for URLs listed in Fallback and/or Network section in a HTML5 Offline Web Application


13.07.2010, в 9:21, Lianghui Chen написал(а):

> And actually there's another small issue to leave the browser or  
> webkit cache to do the revalidation of the freshness: when it's  
> offline they just cannot do it, and it will quite possibly return  
> the expired resource. So when it's offline, we will always get the  
> "fallback namespace" item instead of its mapping "fallback entry",  
> until the cache is cleared.


As I mentioned in the bug, the resource can be served with pragma no- 
store. In that case, there will be no expired resource in the cache.

If a hosting service doesn't allow .htaccess or any kind of CGI  
scripts, it's pretty much unsuitable for serving offline applications  
anyway, since one needs a custom content type for the manifest.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov


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