I've opened an issue to track this...
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=765
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Michael Nordman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Just a guess, does the file contain unicode byte-order-marks? The JSON
> parser we're using fails if the byte stream contains BOM characters, and our
> code does not advance past any BOM prior to handing off to the parser.
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> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Bechelani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to Gears. I'm trying to create a managed store. However I'm
>> getting the following error:
>>
>> Invalid manifest - * Line 1, Column 1
>> Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
>>
>> The manifest file I'm using is a .txt file saved with UTF-8 encoding
>> and the contents is:
>> {
>> // version of the manifest file format
>> "betaManifestVersion": 1,
>>
>> // version of the set of resources described in this manifest file
>> "version": "v0.1",
>>
>> // optional
>> // If the store specifies a requiredCookie, when a request would hit
>> // an entry contained in the manifest except the requiredCookie is
>> // not present, the local server responds with a redirect to this
>> URL.
>> //"redirectUrl": "login.html",
>>
>> // URLs to be cached (URLs are given relative to the manifest URL)
>> "entries": [
>> { "url": "/Scripts/firebug.js" },
>> { "url": "/Scripts/jquery-1.2.6.js" },
>> { "url": "/Scripts/jquery.simplemodal.js" },
>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/site.css" },
>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/home.css" },
>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/gears.css" },
>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/contact_ie.css" },
>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/contact.css" },
>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Images/green_up.gif" },
>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Images/mainPanelLoading.gif" },
>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Images/red_down.gif" },
>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Images/sideBarLoading.gif" }
>> ]
>> }
>>
>> I'll appreciate any help on this.
>>
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