Re: 300-500 status codes and fallback pages

On 10/10/12 10:18 AM, "Andrew Betts" <andrew.betts@ft.com> wrote:

>> ... but that mechanism does not currently apply to cross-origin 3xx
>>redirect responses. Cross-origin 3xx redirects should always trigger the
>>fallback behavior.
>> 
>> This was added to chrome to support a use case where an error response
>>was expected while online in the context of Google Docs. An attempt to
>>do something with a 'doc' that had been deleted or whose permissions had
>>changed such that the current user had no access would result in an
>>error response that should be shown to the user. The default fallback
>>behavior was getting in the way of that.
>> 
>> This half-measure with the extra header got us out of a bind, but it's
>>not very satisfying as a general solution.
>
>How do you deal with this use case in browsers other than Chrome?   I'm
>wondering if there an adequate workaround for developers who don't have
>the luxury of being able to patch the browser, or whether this should be
>considered a failing of appcache for which there is currently no adequate
>remedy.

This need to be captured in a use case and requirements.

Will be delivering a canvas in which to get this work started shortly (now
that I have a bit more time on my hands).

--tobie

Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:41:37 UTC