On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Michael Nordman <micha...@google.com> wrote: >> A CORS based answer to this would work for the folks that have >> expressed an interest in this capability to me. >> >> cc'ing some other appcache implementors too... any thoughts? > > CORS has the semantics of "you're allowed to make these types of > requests to this resource, and you're allowed to read the response > from such requests". This is very different from what is being > requested here as I understand it? > > So either we'd need to add more headers to CORS, or come up with some > other header-based solution I think. > > / Jonas
Seems like CORS describes a protocol more than prescribes semantics? Is it really necessary to build up another protocol. From the abstract, "Specifications that enable an API to make cross-origin requests to resources can use the algorithms defined by this specification."
