[whatwg] Fwd: fallback section taking over for 4xx and 5xx responses while online

[Michael Nordman]

It'd be loads better if application logic were directly responsible for
making these sort of policy decisions regarding what cached resource to use
under what circumstance. Obscure least-common-denominator rules baked into
the user agent with even more obscure ways to override that
least-common-denominator behavior just isn't working out very well.

> In my opinion the UA should *always* use server returned...

And in some other developers opinion, that would defeat efforts to make the
client resilient to 5xx errors.


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Mikko Rantalainen <
mikko.rantalainen at peda.net> wrote:

> connect the server and
> gets HTTP 410 Gone, I'd be pretty upset if cached offline copy would be
> used automatically. The server has clearly responded that the requested
> document is intentionally removed. End user seeing cached (stale) copy
> instead is very far from intented result in this case.
>