[whatwg] Cache Manifest: why have NETWORK?

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:09:03 +0200, Michael Nordman <michaeln at google.com>  
wrote:
> For cases where you don't want to, or can't,  'fallback' on a cached
> resource.
> ex 1.
>
> http://server/get/realtime/results/from/the/outside/worldCreating a  
> fallback
> resource with a mock error or empty response is busy work.
>
> ex 2.
>
> http://server/change/some/state/on/server/side?id=x&newValue=y
> Ditto

You could fallback to a non-existing fallback or some such. But if it is  
really needed NETWORK should get priority over FALLBACK in my opinion (or  
at least the subset of NETWORK that is not a wildcard) so in cases like  
this

   FALLBACK:
   / /fallback

   NETWORK
   /realtime-api
   /update

... you do not get /fallback all the time.


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Anne van Kesteren
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