HTML5 Manifest fallback URL

Question

I have a website which in a DEV context has the URL localhost:8080/MySite and on test/live it will just be www.test.mysite.com and www.mysite.com

In my manifest i have

FALLBACK:
/ offline.html

the problem is if the user hits localhost:8080/MySite (not no slash on end) and the fallback kicks in they get redirected to localhost:8080MySite which bugs...

Does anyone know around this issue, I tried / /offline.html but that bugged the manifest

Answer 1

I tried to replicate your case as much as I could. It worked fine for me using the following:

• I have a directory structure like this one:

  /MySite/HTML/

  /MySite/Styles/

  /MySite/Images/

  /MySite/Scripts/

All my HTML files are located under /MySite/HTML/, including "offline.htm"

• My manifest file is as follows:

  CACHE MANIFEST

  CACHE: main.htm

  /MySite/Styles/mustyles.css

  /MySite/Images/random.jpg

  /MySite/Scripts/jquery.js

  NETWORK:

  *

  FALLBACK:

  / /MySite/HTML/offline.htm

If I type the Following URLs, I always get the "offline.htm" page:

• localhost/MySite/
• localhost/MySite
• localhost/MySite/HTML/
• localhost/MySite/HTML

Note the fallback URL. Tested on FF and Chrome.

Hope this helps.