On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@opera.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:10:52 +0200, Drew Wilson <atwil...@google.com> > wrote: > > Not sure what you are suggesting, Anne - it sounds like they want to tie > > the AppCache to a specific cookie/value combination, which I don't > believe is > > supported by the current spec. > > Well, as far as I can tell cookies are part of the request to the manifest > file so you could serve up a different one from the server based on cookie > data. That's an interesting idea (send down a different manifest), although I don't see how you'd leverage that technique to support two different users/manifests and use the appropriate app cache depending on which user is logged in. I think this boils down to "the Gears 'requiredCookie' attribute was really useful". > > Is the problem supporting multiple users completely client-side? I can see > how that might not work very well. > Yeah, I think that's the use case they are trying to support - offline access to web apps where any one of multiple users can log in. I have to say that I'm somewhat fuzzy on the precise use case, though. > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > http://annevankesteren.nl/ >