ok thanks
Chris
On Nov 17, 10:48 am, Michael Nordman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> The exception when accessing the .status property after a network error is
> by design. The XHR1 spec calls for a NetworkException to be thrown in this
> case on that property access. When the request fails due to a network error,
> the .status property can't reflect a valid HTTP response status code,
> instead it's spec'd to throw an exception I think XHR2 spec tries to provide
> a friendlier programming interface around this flavor of failure, but
> regardless, the Gears API is modeled off of XHR1.
>
> The random gibberish in the responseText property is a bug that has been
> fixed in an upcoming release, in 0.5.4.0 and newer responseText will reflect
> an empty string.
>
> Michael
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Khookie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi
>
> > When I try to make a http request when the network is offline, it
> > seems to come back with strange results.
>
> > For example, I used a managed resource store to store an index.html &
> > index.js file offline, and then when I work offline and have some
> > script make a GET request with the beta.httprequest object, calling
> > req.status in the onreadystatechange event throws an "Internal error"
> > in Firebug. Also, when I check req.responseText, it comes back with
> > random gibberish, which I'm guessing has something to do with some
> > memory being allocated but never used.
>
> > Cheers
>
> > Chris
>
> > PS. check below relevant code:
>
> > *** index.js
> > // init store
> > var _localServer = google.gears.factory.create('beta.localserver');
> > var _managedStore = _localServer.createManagedStore('test');
> > _managedStore.manifestUrl = 'manifest.txt';
> > _managedStore.checkForUpdate();
>
> > var req = google.gears.factory.create('beta.httprequest');
> > req.open('GET', 'test.txt');
> > req.onreadystatechange = function() {
> > if (req.readyState == 4) {
> > alert(req.status);
> > }
> > }
> > req.send(null);
>
> > *** manifest.txt
> > {
> > "betaManifestVersion": 1,
> > "version": "1",
> > "entries": [
> > { "url": ".", "redirect": "index.html" },
> > { "url": "gears_init.js" },
> > { "url": "index.html" },
> > { "url": "index.js" }
> > ]
> > }
>
> > *** test.txt just has :-) in it if you really wanted to know
