The deprecated HTML Application Cache (AppCache) feature is intended to allow you to specify files for browsers to cache and make available to users when offline. Service Workers now address all use cases the AppCache feature was intended for.
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How can I clear the application cache in IE10?
In Internet Explorer 10, how can I manually clear the application cache for a Web page?

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How to store 40.000 images using HTML5 or Phonegap?
I have searched a long time for a way to store a large number of images in HTML5, or access them stored locally and display them.
The application is a product ordering and catalog, like an e-commerce web site but for bulk orders, not final clients,…

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What is the maximum cache size for iOS6 web apps and how can I extend it?
I'm building a web app especially for the iPad (running iOS 6+) showing the product collection of a company.
It all worked perfectly using HTML5's "cache.manifest" file. But since the cache has grown to about 50MB the iPad is not saving the…

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Android Browser Issue with jQuery Ajax and when appcache is used
we are having a problem with the built in browser on Android 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 (we haven't got anything lower to test on).
The problem is that the ajax call will work perfectly on first load, you can press the run Ajax button as many times as you…

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HTML5 AppCache: how to implement offline mode if server isn't accessible but network is accessible
By design HTML5 Offline support (AppCache) works if client device is offline or client device is online and server is accessible. After that I cached the application and reopened it in the browser (of refresh it) when the device has no internet…

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How to get error message on a HTML5 Application Cache Error event?
During the caching of my offline webapp I receive a totally valid error which is displayed in the browser console like this:
Application Cache Error event: Manifest changed during update, scheduling retry
I can add a Listener to be informed that an…

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Make ASP.Net (C#) Web App Available Offline
I have been tasked with making my company's Web App available offline. Before I move to the actual development phase, I want to be sure that my current strategy will not turn out to be a bust.
I first thought about using html5 app cache but after…

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ExtJs Application Cache warning
I have a single page app written with ExtJs. I'm not using the application cache but when the app launches I see the following warning in Chrome:
[Deprecation] Application Cache API use is deprecated and will be removed in M82, around April 2020.…

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Cache Storage vs Application Cache
how do we tell a browser that supports Cache Storage to ignore Application Cache? Some of the posts have mentioned that the browser ignores the html5 cache manifest. But my tests suggest otherwise.
For example, if the html page contains:

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HTML5 web app not caching in iOS Safari for offline use
I am developing a HTML5 web app for use offline on an iPad2 using mobile Safari and the "Add to home screen" feature. I am able to achieve offline caching using a cache.manifest file in desktop Chrome but cannot make it work in iOS mobile…

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How to cache svg (embedded as
I have an angular2 application which consists of multiple components, which embeds ( param) different small svg files in its templates. The reason for this choice is that I need to interact with the svg and manipulate the inner DOM of the svg files.…

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Caching php pages in HTML5 appcache
I am developing an offline application which has a set of .php pages too. Currently I have put those php files in a .appcache manifest files and it works fine. But the issue is, even though I am online, when I try to access a php page, it loads the…

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Why caching HTML5 page prevent doing Cors request?
Why caching an application prevent Cors request?
I have an example, two html page exactly Identical except the second line :
index.html link
index2.html link
Why the one…

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how to selectively disable cache for spring boot (manifest.appcache)
From this question it shows that spring security manages cache for spring boot. From the spring boot documentation it shows how to set cache for resources using:
spring.resources.cache-period= # cache timeouts in headers sent to browser
The…

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Chrome Application Cache doesn't send `Origin` header when caching cross-domain assets
I have an app that wants to load and manipulate images. The browser requires that the image be either from the same origin as the app or that the image response allows cross-origin access. My images are served via CDN (AWS S3), and they are…

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