go_offline.html is on your machine? or is on a hosted service?

On Aug 26, 12:08 pm, Nitramk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to understand Google Gears. I'm using the "go_offline.html"
> app from the tutorial. I'm running Windows XP with Internet Explorer
> 8. (http://code.google.com/intl/sv/apis/gears/tutorial.html)
>
> Depending on how I visit the site, I get connection errors. Here's
> what happens:
>
> 1) I visit my page by typing "iexplorehttp://mysite"; into Start->Run
> and click OK
> 2) Click Capture.
> Now it says that "The documents are now available offline."
> 3) Shut down my web browser
> 4) Disable my network connection
> 5) I visit my page again by typing "iexplorehttp://mysite"; into start->Run 
> and click OK
>
> Now I get an error message saying "Internet Explorer cannot display
> the web page. What you can try: Diagnose Connection Problems". The
> error page also says that maybe the problem has occured because the
> internet connectivity has been lost, the DNS is not reachable and so
> on. In other words, standard IE message.
> 6) I place my cursor into the web browsers URL field and press enter.
> Now the error message disappears and the offline page is shown.
>
> If I reproduce this problem, but type
>  http://mysite
> rather than
>   iexplorehttp://mysite
> into the start->Run field, it all works fine - I get to see the page.
>
> Can someone explain this behavior? Why do I get a connection error
> when starting Internet Explorer with "iexplorehttp://mysite";?

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