spec/Overview.html 1.1864 2694 Add minor clarifications about interacti

Add minor clarifications about interactions of appcache and HTTP.
(credit: ap) (whatwg r2694)

cache attempt
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1864.html#concept-appcache-cache
cache failure steps
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1864.html#cache-failure-steps

http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.1863&r2=1.1864&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=2693&to=2694

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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retrieving revision 1.1864
diff -u -d -r1.1863 -r1.1864
--- Overview.html 23 Jan 2009 00:09:13 -0000 1.1863
+++ Overview.html 23 Jan 2009 00:38:20 -0000 1.1864
@@ -30317,6 +30317,10 @@
       of user interface indicating to the user that the application is
       up to date.</p>
 
+      <p class=note>HTTP caching rules, such as <code title="">Cache-Control: no-store</code>, are ignored for the
+      purposes of the <a href=#application-cache-update-process>application cache update
+      process</a>.</p>
+
      </li>
 
      <li><p>Empty <var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href=#concept-appcache-pending-masters title=concept-appcache-pending-masters>list of pending master
@@ -30716,7 +30720,10 @@
 
     </ol></dd>
 
-  </dl><hr><p>User agents may invoke the <a href=#application-cache-update-process>application cache update
+  </dl><p>Attempts to <a href=#fetch>fetch</a> resources as part of the
+  <a href=#application-cache-update-process>application cache update process</a> may be done with
+  cache-defeating semantics, to avoid problems with stale or
+  inconsistent intermediary caches.</p><hr><p>User agents may invoke the <a href=#application-cache-update-process>application cache update
   process</a>, in the background, for any <a href=#application-cache>application
   cache</a>, at any time (with no <a href=#browsing-context>browsing
   context</a>). This allows user agents to keep caches primed and

Received on Friday, 23 January 2009 00:41:41 UTC