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Bug 14445 - When dealing with large web applications there should be a way to just do delta downloads of modified files. Just making a small change to e.g. a JS file and modifying the manifest file will currently result in a complete re-downloading of the entire appl
Summary: When dealing with large web applications there should be a way to just do del...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-10-13 08:59 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-24 18:44 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-13 08:59:58 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/offline.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache

Comment:
When dealing with large web applications there should be a way to just do
delta downloads of modified files. Just making a small change to e.g. a JS
file and modifying the manifest file will currently result in a complete
re-downloading of the entire application.

Posted from: 155.250.128.34
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/534.51.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.1 Safari/534.51.22
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-24 18:44:08 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I agree, but that seems like an HTTP issue, not an HTML issue. HTTP should support this in general for all cache update requests. I recommend bringing this up with the HTTP WG.