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Bug 16187 - Wildcard entries such as /user/* -> / are a must to create fully-functional offline web applications.
Summary: Wildcard entries such as /user/* -> / are a must to create fully-functional o...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-03-01 20:17 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:40 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-03-01 20:17:53 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/offline.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#concept-appcache-manifest-fallback
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#concept-appcache-manifest-fallback

Comment:
Wildcard entries such as /user/* -> / are a must to create fully-functional
offline web applications.

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Comment 1 Jan Kuča 2012-03-01 21:43:50 UTC 
I wrote a blog post about why I'm proposing this - http://blog.jankuca.com/post/18567328026/wildcard-fallback-appcache-needed
Comment 2 Jan Kuča 2012-03-02 18:39:54 UTC 
Turns out I missed the spec paragraph stating that fallback entries are matched by prefix.

FALLBACK:
/user/ /offline.html
# This applies to /user/*.

Sorry.