- From: Michael Nordman <michaeln@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:44:56 -0800
- To: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>
- Cc: "whatwg@lists.whatwg.org" <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
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@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. >
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