HTML5 Cache Manifest does not load ressources unless it is located at the root of the website?

Question

I have a website with a cache manifest described using

<html manifest="site.manifest">...</html>

The manifest is very simple :

CACHE MANIFEST

CACHE:
/fira.jpg
/offline.php
FALLBACK:
/no.php /fallback.php

When my site is deployed under a domain root like:

http://localhost

I can see a GET request in Apache logs for site.manifest, all resources are loaded fine, manifest is working fine.

Now, If I deploy my web site under another context, like

http://localhost/other/

and hit this url, I can still see a GET request for site.manifest, however, no resources are loaded, and applicationCache contains 0 entries.

Is the Cache Manifest supposed to be server only from the root of a web site ?

Thanks

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '12 at 02:34

I think it's because you are using absolute URL's. Try remoing the preceeding "/"

e.g.:

CACHE MANIFEST

CACHE:
fira.jpg
offline.php

or... you could use the correct absolute path -- /other/fira.jpg, etc.

I might be misunderstanding your issue - hopefully this helps :)

Greg

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