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<ol class="toc"><li><ol><li><a href="offline.html#offline"><span class="secno">5.6 </span>Offline Web applications</a>
<ol><li><a href="offline.html#introduction-4"><span class="secno">5.6.1 </span>Introduction</a>
<ol><li><a href="offline.html#appcacheevents"><span class="secno">5.6.1.1 </span>Event summary</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="offline.html#appcache"><span class="secno">5.6.2 </span>Application caches</a></li><li><a href="offline.html#manifests"><span class="secno">5.6.3 </span>The cache manifest syntax</a>
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<h3 id="offline"><span class="secno">5.6 </span>Offline Web applications</h3><h4 id="introduction-4"><span class="secno">5.6.1 </span>Introduction</h4><p><i>This section is non-normative.</i></p><p>In order to enable users to continue interacting with Web
applications and documents even when their network connection is
unavailable &#8212; for instance, because they are traveling outside
of their ISP's coverage area &#8212; authors can provide a manifest
which lists the files that are needed for the Web application to
work offline and which causes the user's browser to keep a copy of
the files for use offline.</p><p>To illustrate this, consider a simple clock applet consisting of
an HTML page "<code title="">clock.html</code>", a CSS style sheet
"<code title="">clock.css</code>", and a JavaScript script "<code title="">clock.js</code>".</p><p>Before adding the manifest, these three files might look like
this:</p><pre>&lt;!-- clock.html --&gt;
&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Clock&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;script src="clock.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="clock.css"&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The time is: &lt;output id="clock"&gt;&lt;/output&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</pre><pre>/* clock.css */
output { font: 2em sans-serif; }</pre><pre>/* clock.js */
setTimeout(function () {
document.getElementById('clock').value = new Date();
}, 1000);</pre><p>If the user tries to open the "<code title="">clock.html</code>"
page while offline, though, the user agent (unless it happens to
have it still in the local cache) will fail with an error.</p><p>The author can instead provide a manifest of the three files:</p><pre>CACHE MANIFEST
clock.html
clock.css
clock.js</pre><p>With a small change to the HTML file, the manifest (served as
<code><a href="iana.html#text-cache-manifest">text/cache-manifest</a></code>) is linked to the application:</p><pre>&lt;!-- clock.html --&gt;
&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
&lt;html manifest="clock.appcache"&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Clock&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;script src="clock.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="clock.css"&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The time is: &lt;output id="clock"&gt;&lt;/output&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</pre><p>Now, if the user goes to the page, the browser will cache the
files and make them available even when the user is offline.</p><p class="note">Authors are encouraged to include the main page in
the manifest also, but in practice the page that referenced the
manifest is automatically cached even if it isn't explicitly
mentioned.</p><p class="note">HTTP cache headers and restrictions on caching pages
served over TLS (encrypted, using <code title="">https:</code>) are
overridden by manifests. Thus, pages will not expire from an
application cache before the user agent has updated it, and even
applications served over TLS can be made to work offline.</p><h5 id="appcacheevents"><span class="secno">5.6.1.1 </span>Event summary</h5><p><i>This section is non-normative.</i></p><p>When the user visits a page that declares a manifest, the browser
will try to update the cache. It does this by fetching a copy of the
manifest and, if the manifest has changed since the user agent last
saw it, redownloading all the resources it mentions and caching them
anew.</p><p>As this is going on, a number of events get fired on the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object to keep the script updated as
to the state of the cache update, so that the user can be notified
appropriately. The events are as follows:</p><table><thead><tr><th> Event name
</th><th> Interface
</th><th> Dispatched when...
</th><th> Next events
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td> <dfn id="event-appcache-checking" title="event-appcache-checking"><code>checking</code></dfn>
</td><td> <code><a href="infrastructure.html#event">Event</a></code>
</td><td> The user agent is checking for an update, or attempting to download the manifest for the first time. <strong>This is always the first event in the sequence.</strong>
</td><td> <code title="event-appcache-noupdate"><a href="#event-appcache-noupdate">noupdate</a></code>, <code title="event-appcache-downloading"><a href="#event-appcache-downloading">downloading</a></code>, <code title="event-appcache-obsolete"><a href="#event-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a></code>, <code title="event-appcache-error"><a href="#event-appcache-error">error</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td> <dfn id="event-appcache-noupdate" title="event-appcache-noupdate"><code>noupdate</code></dfn>
</td><td> <code><a href="infrastructure.html#event">Event</a></code>
</td><td> The manifest hadn't changed.
</td><td> Last event in sequence.
</td></tr><tr><td> <dfn id="event-appcache-downloading" title="event-appcache-downloading"><code>downloading</code></dfn>
</td><td> <code><a href="infrastructure.html#event">Event</a></code>
</td><td> The user agent has found an update and is fetching it, or is downloading the resources listed by the manifest for the first time.
</td><td> <code title="event-appcache-progress"><a href="#event-appcache-progress">progress</a></code>, <code title="event-appcache-error"><a href="#event-appcache-error">error</a></code>, <code title="event-appcache-cached"><a href="#event-appcache-cached">cached</a></code>, <code title="event-appcache-updateready"><a href="#event-appcache-updateready">updateready</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td> <dfn id="event-appcache-progress" title="event-appcache-progress"><code>progress</code></dfn>
</td><td> <code>ProgressEvent</code>
</td><td> The user agent is downloading resources listed by the manifest.
</td><td> <code title="event-appcache-progress"><a href="#event-appcache-progress">progress</a></code>, <code title="event-appcache-error"><a href="#event-appcache-error">error</a></code>, <code title="event-appcache-cached"><a href="#event-appcache-cached">cached</a></code>, <code title="event-appcache-updateready"><a href="#event-appcache-updateready">updateready</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td> <dfn id="event-appcache-cached" title="event-appcache-cached"><code>cached</code></dfn>
</td><td> <code><a href="infrastructure.html#event">Event</a></code>
</td><td> The resources listed in the manifest have been downloaded, and the application is now cached.
</td><td> Last event in sequence.
</td></tr><tr><td> <dfn id="event-appcache-updateready" title="event-appcache-updateready"><code>updateready</code></dfn>
</td><td> <code><a href="infrastructure.html#event">Event</a></code>
</td><td> The resources listed in the manifest have been newly redownloaded, and the script can use <code title="dom-appcache-swapCache"><a href="#dom-appcache-swapcache">swapCache()</a></code> to switch to the new cache.
</td><td> Last event in sequence.
</td></tr><tr><td> <dfn id="event-appcache-obsolete" title="event-appcache-obsolete"><code>obsolete</code></dfn>
</td><td> <code><a href="infrastructure.html#event">Event</a></code>
</td><td> The manifest was found to have become a 404 or 410 page, so the application cache is being deleted.
</td><td> Last event in sequence.
</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"> <dfn id="event-appcache-error" title="event-appcache-error"><code>error</code></dfn>
</td><td rowspan="4"> <code><a href="infrastructure.html#event">Event</a></code>
</td><td> The manifest was a 404 or 410 page, so the attempt to cache the application has been aborted.
</td><td rowspan="3"> Last event in sequence.
</td></tr><tr><td> The manifest hadn't changed, but the page referencing the manifest failed to download properly.
</td></tr><tr><td> A fatal error occurred while fetching the resources listed in the manifest.
</td></tr><tr><td> The manifest changed while the update was being run.
</td><td> The user agent will try fetching the files again momentarily.
</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="impl">
<h4 id="appcache"><span class="secno">5.6.2 </span>Application caches</h4>
<p>An <dfn id="application-cache">application cache</dfn> is a set of cached resources
consisting of:</p>
<ul><li>
<p>One or more resources (including their out-of-band metadata,
such as HTTP headers, if any), identified by URLs, each falling
into one (or more) of the following categories:</p>
<dl><dt><dfn id="concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">Master entries</dfn>
</dt><dd><p class="note">These are documents that were added to the
cache because a <a href="browsers.html#browsing-context">browsing context</a> was <a href="history.html#navigate" title="navigate">navigated</a> to that document and the
document indicated that this was its cache, using the <code title="attr-html-manifest"><a href="semantics.html#attr-html-manifest">manifest</a></code> attribute.</p>
</dd><dt><dfn id="concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">The manifest</dfn>
</dt><dd><p class="note">This is the resource corresponding to the URL
that was given in a master entry's <code><a href="semantics.html#the-html-element">html</a></code> element's
<code title="attr-html-manifest"><a href="semantics.html#attr-html-manifest">manifest</a></code> attribute. The
manifest is fetched and processed during the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application
cache download process</a>. All the <a href="#concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">master entries</a> have the
<a href="origin-0.html#same-origin" title="same origin">same origin</a> as the manifest.</p>
</dd><dt><dfn id="concept-appcache-explicit" title="concept-appcache-explicit">Explicit entries</dfn>
</dt><dd><p class="note">These are the resources that were listed in
the cache's <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a> in an <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-explicit" title="concept-appcache-manifest-explicit">explicit
section</a>.</p>
</dd><dt><dfn id="concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">Fallback entries</dfn>
</dt><dd><p class="note">These are the resources that were listed in
the cache's <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a> in a <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-fallback" title="concept-appcache-manifest-fallback">fallback
section</a>.</p>
</dd></dl><p><a href="#concept-appcache-explicit" title="concept-appcache-explicit">Explicit entries</a>
and <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">Fallback
entries</a> can be marked as <dfn id="concept-appcache-foreign" title="concept-appcache-foreign">foreign</dfn>, which means that
they have a <code title="attr-html-manifest"><a href="semantics.html#attr-html-manifest">manifest</a></code>
attribute but that it doesn't point at this cache's <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a>.</p>
<p class="note">A URL in the list can be flagged with multiple
different types, and thus an entry can end up being categorized as
multiple entries. For example, an entry can be a manifest entry
and an explicit entry at the same time, if the manifest is listed
within the manifest.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Zero or more <dfn id="concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback
namespaces</dfn>, each of which is mapped to a <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback entry</a>.</p>
<p class="note">These are URLs used as <a href="#concept-appcache-matches-fallback" title="concept-appcache-matches-fallback">prefix match
patterns</a> for resources that are to be fetched from the
network if possible, or to be replaced by the corresponding <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback entry</a> if not.
Each namespace URL has the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin">same origin</a> as <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">the manifest</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Zero or more URLs that form the <dfn id="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist
namespaces</dfn>.</p>
<p class="note">These are used as prefix match patterns, and
declare URLs that the user agent will never load from the cache
but will instead always attempt to obtain from the network.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An <dfn id="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard">online whitelist
wildcard flag</dfn>, which is either <i title="">open</i> or <i title="">blocking</i>.</p>
<p class="note">The <i title="">open</i> state indicates that any
URL not listed as cached is to be implicitly treated as being in
the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online
whitelist namespaces</a>; the <i title="">blocking</i> state
indicates that URLs not listed explicitly in the manifest are to
be treated as unavailable.</p>
</li>
</ul><p>Each <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> has a <dfn id="concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</dfn>, which is
either <i>complete</i> or <i>incomplete</i>.</p>
<hr><p>An <dfn id="application-cache-group">application cache group</dfn> is a group of <a href="#application-cache" title="application cache">application caches</a>, identified by
the <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> of a resource <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a> which is used to
populate the caches in the group.</p>
<p>An <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> is <dfn id="concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newer</dfn> than another if it was
created after the other (in other words, <a href="#application-cache" title="application
cache">application caches</a> in an <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache
group</a> have a chronological order).</p>
<p>Only the newest <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in an
<a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> can have its <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</a> set to
<i>incomplete</i>; the others are always all <i>complete</i>.</p>
<p>Each <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> has an <dfn id="concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">update status</dfn>, which is one of
the following: <i>idle</i>, <i>checking</i>, <i>downloading</i>.</p>
<p>A <dfn id="relevant-application-cache">relevant application cache</dfn> is an <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> that is the <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newest</a> in its <a href="#application-cache-group" title="application cache group">group</a> to be
<i>complete</i>.</p>
<p>Each <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> has a <dfn id="concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</dfn>. Each entry in this list consists of a resource and a
corresponding <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> object. It is used during the
<a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download process</a> to ensure that new
master entries are cached even if the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache
download process</a> was already running for their
<a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> when they were loaded.</p>
<p>An <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> can be marked as <dfn id="concept-appcache-obsolete" title="concept-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</dfn>, meaning that it
must be ignored when looking at what <a href="#application-cache-group" title="application cache
group">application cache groups</a> exist.</p>
<hr><p>A <dfn id="cache-host">cache host</dfn> is a <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> or a
<code>SharedWorkerGlobalScope</code> object. A <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> can be associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a>.
<a href="references.html#refsWEBWORKERS">[WEBWORKERS]</a>
</p>
<p>A <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> initially is not associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>, but can become associated with one
early during the page load process, when steps <a href="tree-construction.html#parser-appcache">in the parser</a> and in the <a href="history.html#navigate" title="navigate">navigation</a> sections cause <a href="#concept-appcache-init" title="concept-appcache-init">cache selection</a> to occur.</p>
<p>A <code>SharedWorkerGlobalScope</code> can be associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> when it is created.
<a href="references.html#refsWEBWORKERS">[WEBWORKERS]</a>
</p>
<p>Each <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> has an associated
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object.</p>
<hr><p>Multiple <a href="#application-cache" title="application cache">application
caches</a> in different <a href="#application-cache-group" title="application cache
group">application cache groups</a> can contain the same
resource, e.g. if the manifests all reference that resource. If the
user agent is to <dfn id="concept-appcache-selection" title="concept-appcache-selection">select an
application cache</dfn> from a list of <a href="#relevant-application-cache" title="relevant
application cache">relevant application caches</a> that contain a
resource, the user agent must use the application cache that the
user most likely wants to see the resource from, taking into account
the following:</p>
<ul><li>which application cache was most recently updated,
</li><li>which application cache was being used to display the
resource from which the user decided to look at the new resource,
and
</li><li>which application cache the user prefers.
</li></ul><hr><p>A URL <dfn id="concept-appcache-matches-fallback" title="concept-appcache-matches-fallback">matches a
fallback namespace</dfn> if there exists a <a href="#relevant-application-cache">relevant
application cache</a> whose <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a>'s URL has the
<a href="origin-0.html#same-origin">same origin</a> as the URL in question, and that has a
<a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback namespace</a>
that is a <a href="infrastructure.html#prefix-match">prefix match</a> for the URL being examined. If
multiple fallback namespaces match the same URL, the longest one is
the one that matches. A URL looking for a fallback namespace can
match more than one application cache at a time, but only matches
one namespace in each cache.</p>
<div class="example">
<p>If a manifest <code title="">http://example.com/app1/manifest</code> declares that
<code title="">http://example.com/resources/images</code> is a
fallback namespace, and the user navigates to <code title="">HTTP://EXAMPLE.COM:80/resources/images/cat.png</code>,
then the user agent will decide that the application cache
identified by <code title="">http://example.com/app1/manifest</code> contains a
namespace with a match for that URL.</p>
</div>
</div><h4 id="manifests"><span class="secno">5.6.3 </span>The cache manifest syntax</h4><h5 id="some-sample-manifests"><span class="secno">5.6.3.1 </span>Some sample manifests</h5><p><i>This section is non-normative.</i></p><div class="example">
<p>This example manifest requires two images and a style sheet to be
cached and whitelists a CGI script.</p>
<pre>CACHE MANIFEST
# the above line is required
# this is a comment
# there can be as many of these anywhere in the file
# they are all ignored
# comments can have spaces before them
# but must be alone on the line
# blank lines are ignored too
# these are files that need to be cached they can either be listed
# first, or a "CACHE:" header could be put before them, as is done
# lower down.
images/sound-icon.png
images/background.png
# note that each file has to be put on its own line
# here is a file for the online whitelist -- it isn't cached, and
# references to this file will bypass the cache, always hitting the
# network (or trying to, if the user is offline).
NETWORK:
comm.cgi
# here is another set of files to cache, this time just the CSS file.
CACHE:
style/default.css</pre>
<p>It could equally well be written as follows:</p>
<pre>CACHE MANIFEST
NETWORK:
comm.cgi
CACHE:
style/default.css
images/sound-icon.png
images/background.png</pre>
</div><div class="example">
<p>Offline application cache manifests can use absolute paths or
even absolute URLs:</p>
<pre>CACHE MANIFEST
/main/home
/main/app.js
/settings/home
/settings/app.js
http://img.example.com/logo.png
http://img.example.com/check.png
http://img.example.com/cross.png</pre>
</div><div class="example">
<p>The following manifest defines a catch-all error page that is
displayed for any page on the site while the user is offline. It
also specifies that the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard">online whitelist
wildcard flag</a> is <i title="">open</i>, meaning that accesses
to resources on other sites will not be blocked. (Resources on the
same site are already not blocked because of the catch-all fallback
namespace.)</p>
<p>So long as all pages on the site reference this manifest, they
will get cached locally as they are fetched, so that subsequent hits
to the same page will load the page immediately from the
cache. Until the manifest is changed, those pages will not be
fetched from the server again. When the manifest changes, then all
the files will be redownloaded.</p>
<p>Subresources, such as style sheets, images, etc, would only be
cached using the regular HTTP caching semantics, however.</p>
<pre>CACHE MANIFEST
FALLBACK:
/ /offline.html
NETWORK:
*</pre>
</div><h5 id="writing-cache-manifests"><span class="secno">5.6.3.2 </span>Writing cache manifests</h5><p>Manifests must be served using the
<code><a href="iana.html#text-cache-manifest">text/cache-manifest</a></code> <a href="infrastructure.html#mime-type">MIME type</a>. All
resources served using the <code><a href="iana.html#text-cache-manifest">text/cache-manifest</a></code>
<a href="infrastructure.html#mime-type">MIME type</a> must follow the syntax of application cache
manifests, as described in this section.</p><p>An application cache manifest is a text file, whose text is
encoded using UTF-8. Data in application cache manifests is
line-based. Newlines must be represented by U+000A LINE FEED (LF)
characters, U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR) characters, or U+000D
CARRIAGE RETURN (CR) U+000A LINE FEED (LF) pairs. <a href="references.html#refsRFC3629">[RFC3629]</a></p><p class="note">This is a <a href="introduction.html#willful-violation">willful violation</a> of RFC
2046, which requires all <code title="">text/*</code> types to only
allow CRLF line breaks. This requirement, however, is outdated; the
use of CR, LF, and CRLF line breaks is commonly supported and indeed
sometimes CRLF is <em>not</em> supported by text editors. <a href="references.html#refsRFC2046">[RFC2046]</a></p><p>The first line of an application cache manifest must consist of
the string "CACHE", a single U+0020 SPACE character, the string
"MANIFEST", and either a U+0020 SPACE character, a U+0009 CHARACTER
TABULATION (tab) character, a U+000A LINE FEED (LF) character, or a
U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR) character. The first line may optionally
be preceded by a U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK (BOM) character. If any
other text is found on the first line, it is ignored.</p><p>Subsequent lines, if any, must all be one of the following:</p><dl><dt>A blank line
</dt><dd>
<p>Blank lines must consist of zero or more U+0020 SPACE and
U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) characters only.</p>
</dd><dt>A comment
</dt><dd>
<p>Comment lines must consist of zero or more U+0020 SPACE and
U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) characters, followed by a single
U+0023 NUMBER SIGN character (#), followed by zero or more
characters other than U+000A LINE FEED (LF) and U+000D CARRIAGE
RETURN (CR) characters.</p>
<p class="note">Comments must be on a line on their own. If they
were to be included on a line with a URL, the "#" would be
mistaken for part of a fragment identifier.</p>
</dd><dt>A section header
</dt><dd>
<p>Section headers change the current section. There are three
possible section headers:
</p><dl><dt><code>CACHE:</code>
</dt><dd>Switches to the <dfn id="concept-appcache-manifest-explicit" title="concept-appcache-manifest-explicit">explicit section</dfn>.
</dd><dt><code>FALLBACK:</code>
</dt><dd>Switches to the <dfn id="concept-appcache-manifest-fallback" title="concept-appcache-manifest-fallback">fallback section</dfn>.
</dd><dt><code>NETWORK:</code>
</dt><dd>Switches to the <dfn id="concept-appcache-manifest-network" title="concept-appcache-manifest-network">online whitelist section</dfn>.
</dd></dl><p>Section header lines must consist of zero or more U+0020 SPACE
and U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) characters, followed by one
of the names above (including the U+003A COLON character (:))
followed by zero or more U+0020 SPACE and U+0009 CHARACTER
TABULATION (tab) characters.</p>
<p>Ironically, by default, the current section is the
<a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-explicit" title="concept-appcache-manifest-explicit">explicit section</a>.</p>
</dd><dt>Data for the current section
</dt><dd>
<p>The format that data lines must take depends on the current
section.</p>
<p>When the current section is the <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-explicit" title="concept-appcache-manifest-explicit">explicit
section</a>, data lines must consist of zero or more U+0020
SPACE and U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) characters, a
<a href="urls.html#valid-url">valid URL</a> identifying a resource other than the
manifest itself, and then zero or more U+0020 SPACE and U+0009
CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) characters.</p>
<p>When the current section is the <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-fallback" title="concept-appcache-manifest-fallback">fallback
section</a>, data lines must consist of zero or more U+0020
SPACE and U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) characters, a
<a href="urls.html#valid-url">valid URL</a> identifying a resource other than the
manifest itself, one or more U+0020 SPACE and U+0009 CHARACTER
TABULATION (tab) characters, another <a href="urls.html#valid-url">valid URL</a>
identifying a resource other than the manifest itself, and then
zero or more U+0020 SPACE and U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab)
characters.</p>
<p>When the current section is the <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-network" title="concept-appcache-manifest-network">online whitelist
section</a>, data lines must consist of zero or more U+0020
SPACE and U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) characters, either a
single U+002A ASTERISK character (*) or a <a href="urls.html#valid-url">valid
URL</a> identifying a resource other than the manifest itself,
and then zero or more U+0020 SPACE and U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION
(tab) characters.</p>
</dd></dl><p>Manifests may contain sections more than once. Sections may be
empty.</p><p>If the manifest's <a href="urls.html#url-scheme" title="url-scheme">&lt;scheme&gt;</a>
is <code title="">https:</code> or another scheme intended for
encrypted data transfer, then all URLs in <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-explicit" title="concept-appcache-manifest-explicit">explicit sections</a>
must have the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin">same origin</a> as the manifest itself.</p><p>URLs that are to be fallback pages associated with <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback namespaces</a>, and
those namespaces themselves, must be given in <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-fallback" title="concept-appcache-manifest-fallback">fallback sections</a>,
with the namespace being the first URL of the data line, and the
corresponding fallback page being the second URL. All the other
pages to be cached must be listed in <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-explicit" title="concept-appcache-manifest-explicit">explicit
sections</a>.</p><p><a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">Fallback
namespaces</a> and <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback entries</a> must have
the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin">same origin</a> as the manifest itself.</p><p>A <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback
namespace</a> must not be listed more than once.</p><p>Namespaces that the user agent is to put into the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist</a>
must all be specified in <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-network" title="concept-appcache-manifest-network">online whitelist
sections</a>. (This is needed for any URL that the page is
intending to use to communicate back to the server.) To specify that
all URLs are automatically whitelisted in this way, a U+002A
ASTERISK character (*) may be specified as one of the URLs. </p><p>Authors should not include namespaces in the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist</a> for
which another namespace in the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist</a> is
a <a href="infrastructure.html#prefix-match">prefix match</a>.</p><p>Relative URLs must be given relative to the manifest's own
URL. All URLs in the manifest must have the same <a href="urls.html#url-scheme" title="url-scheme">&lt;scheme&gt;</a> as the manifest itself
(either explicitly or implicitly, through the use of relative
URLs).</p><p>URLs in manifests must not have fragment identifiers (i.e. the
U+0023 NUMBER SIGN character isn't allowed in URLs in
manifests).</p><p><a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">Fallback
namespaces</a> and namespaces in the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist</a> are
matched by <a href="infrastructure.html#prefix-match">prefix match</a>.</p><div class="impl">
<h5 id="parsing-cache-manifests"><span class="secno">5.6.3.3 </span>Parsing cache manifests</h5>
<p>When a user agent is to <dfn id="parse-a-manifest">parse a manifest</dfn>, it means
that the user agent must run the following steps:</p>
<ol><li><p>The user agent must decode the byte stream corresponding
with the manifest to be parsed <a href="infrastructure.html#decoded-as-utf-8-with-error-handling" title="decoded as UTF-8, with
error handling">as UTF-8, with error handling</a>. </p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">base URL</var> be the <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute
URL</a> representing the manifest.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">explicit URLs</var> be an initially empty
list of <a href="urls.html#absolute-url" title="absolute URL">absolute URLs</a> for <a href="#concept-appcache-explicit" title="concept-appcache-explicit">explicit entries</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">fallback URLs</var> be an initially empty
mapping of <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback
namespaces</a> to <a href="urls.html#absolute-url" title="absolute URL">absolute
URLs</a> for <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback
entries</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">online whitelist namespaces</var> be an
initially empty list of <a href="urls.html#absolute-url" title="absolute URL">absolute
URLs</a> for an <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online
whitelist</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">online whitelist wildcard flag</var> be <i title="">blocking</i>. </p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">input</var> be the decoded text of the
manifest's byte stream.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">position</var> be a pointer into <var title="">input</var>, initially pointing at the first
character.</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">position</var> is pointing at a U+FEFF BYTE
ORDER MARK (BOM) character, then advance <var title="">position</var> to the next character.</p></li>
<li><p>If the characters starting from <var title="">position</var>
are "CACHE", followed by a U+0020 SPACE character, followed by
"MANIFEST", then advance <var title="">position</var> to the next
character after those. Otherwise, this isn't a cache manifest;
abort this algorithm with a failure while checking for the magic
signature.</p></li>
<li><p>If the character at <var title="">position</var> is neither
a U+0020 SPACE character, a U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab)
character, U+000A LINE FEED (LF) character, nor a U+000D CARRIAGE
RETURN (CR) character, then this isn't a cache manifest; abort this
algorithm with a failure while checking for the magic
signature.</p></li>
<li><p>This is a cache manifest. The algorithm cannot fail beyond
this point (though bogus lines can get ignored).</p></li>
<li><p><a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#collect-a-sequence-of-characters">Collect a sequence of characters</a> that are
<em>not</em> U+000A LINE FEED (LF) or U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
characters, and ignore those characters. (Extra text on the first
line, after the signature, is ignored.)</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">mode</var> be "explicit".</p></li>
<li><p><i>Start of line</i>: If <var title="">position</var> is
past the end of <var title="">input</var>, then jump to the last
step. Otherwise, <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#collect-a-sequence-of-characters">collect a sequence of characters</a> that
are U+000A LINE FEED (LF), U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR), U+0020
SPACE, or U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) characters.</p></li>
<li><p>Now, <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#collect-a-sequence-of-characters">collect a sequence of characters</a> that are
<em>not</em> U+000A LINE FEED (LF) or U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
characters, and let the result be <var title="">line</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>Drop any trailing U+0020 SPACE and U+0009 CHARACTER
TABULATION (tab) characters at the end of <var title="">line</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">line</var> is the empty string, then jump
back to the step labeled "start of line".</p></li>
<li><p>If the first character in <var title="">line</var> is a
U+0023 NUMBER SIGN character (#), then jump back to the step
labeled "start of line".</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">line</var> equals "CACHE:" (the word
"CACHE" followed by a U+003A COLON character (:)), then set <var title="">mode</var> to "explicit" and jump back to the step
labeled "start of line".</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">line</var> equals "FALLBACK:" (the word
"FALLBACK" followed by a U+003A COLON character (:)), then set <var title="">mode</var> to "fallback" and jump back to the step
labeled "start of line".</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">line</var> equals "NETWORK:" (the word
"NETWORK" followed by a U+003A COLON character (:)), then set <var title="">mode</var> to "online whitelist" and jump back to the step
labeled "start of line".</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">line</var> ends with a U+003A COLON
character (:), then set <var title="">mode</var> to "unknown" and
jump back to the step labeled "start of line".</p></li>
<li><p>This is either a data line or it is syntactically
incorrect.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">position</var> be a pointer into <var title="">line</var>, initially pointing at the start of the
string.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">tokens</var> be a list of strings,
initially empty.</p></li>
<li>
<p>While <var title="">position</var> doesn't point past the end
of <var title="">line</var>:</p>
<ol><li><p>Let <var title="">current token</var> be an empty
string.</p></li>
<li><p>While <var title="">position</var> doesn't point past the
end of <var title="">line</var> and the character at <var title="">position</var> is neither a U+0020 SPACE nor a U+0009
CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) character, add the character at <var title="">position</var> to <var title="">current token</var> and
advance <var title="">position</var> to the next character in
<var title="">input</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>Add <var title="">current token</var> to the <var title="">tokens</var> list.</p></li>
<li><p>While <var title="">position</var> doesn't point past the
end of <var title="">line</var> and the character at <var title="">position</var> is either a U+0020 SPACE or a U+0009
CHARACTER TABULATION (tab) character, advance <var title="">position</var> to the next character in <var title="">input</var>.</p></li>
</ol></li>
<li>
<p>Process <var title="">tokens</var> as follows:</p>
<dl class="switch"><dt>If <var title="">mode</var> is "explicit"</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="urls.html#resolve-a-url" title="resolve a url">Resolve</a> the first item in
<var title="">tokens</var>, relative to <var title="">base
URL</var>; ignore the rest.</p>
<p>If this fails, then jump back to the step labeled "start of
line".</p>
<p>If the resulting <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> has a different
<a href="urls.html#url-scheme" title="url-scheme">&lt;scheme&gt;</a> component than
the manifest's URL (compared in an <a href="infrastructure.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII
case-insensitive</a> manner), then jump back to the step
labeled "start of line". If the manifest's <a href="urls.html#url-scheme" title="url-scheme">&lt;scheme&gt;</a> is <code title="">https:</code> or another scheme intended for encrypted
data transfer, and the resulting <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> does
not have the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin">same origin</a> as the manifest's URL,
then jump back to the step labeled "start of line".</p>
<p>Drop the <a href="urls.html#url-fragment" title="url-fragment">&lt;fragment&gt;</a>
component of the resulting <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a>, if it has
one.</p>
<p>Add the resulting <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> to the <var title="">explicit URLs</var>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>If <var title="">mode</var> is "fallback"</dt>
<dd>
<p>Let <var title="">part one</var> be the first token in <var title="">tokens</var>, and let <var title="">part two</var> be
the second token in <var title="">tokens</var>.</p>
<p><a href="urls.html#resolve-a-url" title="resolve a url">Resolve</a> <var title="">part
one</var> and <var title="">part two</var>, relative to <var title="">base URL</var>.</p>
<p>If either fails, then jump back to the step labeled "start of
line".</p>
<p>If the <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> corresponding to either <var title="">part one</var> or <var title="">part two</var> does not
have the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin">same origin</a> as the manifest's URL, then
jump back to the step labeled "start of line".</p>
<p>Drop any <a href="urls.html#url-fragment" title="url-fragment">&lt;fragment&gt;</a>
components of the resulting <a href="urls.html#absolute-url" title="absolute URL">absolute
URLs</a>.</p>
<p>If the <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> corresponding to <var title="">part one</var> is already in the <var title="">fallback
URLs</var> mapping as a <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback namespace</a>,
then jump back to the step labeled "start of line".</p>
<p>Otherwise, add the <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> corresponding to
<var title="">part one</var> to the <var title="">fallback
URLs</var> mapping as a <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback namespace</a>,
mapped to the <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> corresponding to <var title="">part two</var> as the <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback entry</a>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>If <var title="">mode</var> is "online whitelist"</dt>
<dd>
<p>If the first item in <var title="">tokens</var> is a U+002A
ASTERISK character (*), then set <var title="">online whitelist
wildcard flag</var> to <i title="">open</i> and jump back to the
step labeled "start of line".</p>
<p>Otherwise, <a href="urls.html#resolve-a-url" title="resolve a url">resolve</a> the
first item in <var title="">tokens</var>, relative to <var title="">base URL</var>; ignore the rest.</p>
<p>If this fails, then jump back to the step labeled "start of
line".</p>
<p>If the resulting <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> has a different
<a href="urls.html#url-scheme" title="url-scheme">&lt;scheme&gt;</a> component than
the manifest's URL (compared in an <a href="infrastructure.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII
case-insensitive</a> manner), then jump back to the step
labeled "start of line".</p>
<p>Drop the <a href="urls.html#url-fragment" title="url-fragment">&lt;fragment&gt;</a>
component of the resulting <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a>, if it has
one.</p>
<p>Add the resulting <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> to the <var title="">online whitelist namespaces</var>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>If <var title="">mode</var> is "unknown"</dt>
<dd>
<p>Do nothing. The line is ignored.</p>
</dd>
</dl></li>
<li><p>Jump back to the step labeled "start of line". (That step
jumps to the next, and last, step when the end of the file is
reached.)</p></li>
<li><p>Return the <var title="">explicit URLs</var> list, the <var title="">fallback URLs</var> mapping, the <var title="">online
whitelist namespaces</var>, and the <var title="">online whitelist
wildcard flag</var>.</p></li>
</ol><div class="note">
<p>The resource that declares the manifest (with the <code title="attr-html-manifest"><a href="semantics.html#attr-html-manifest">manifest</a></code> attribute) will always
get taken from the cache, whether it is listed in the cache or not,
even if it is listed in an <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist
namespace</a>.</p>
<p>If a resource is listed in the <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-explicit" title="concept-appcache-manifest-explicit">explicit section</a>
or as a <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback
entry</a> in the <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-fallback" title="concept-appcache-manifest-fallback">fallback section</a>,
the resource will always be taken from the cache, regardless of any
other matching entries in the <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback namespaces</a> or
<a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist
namespaces</a>.</p>
<p>When a <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback
namespace</a> and an <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist
namespace</a> overlap, the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist
namespace</a> has priority.</p>
<p>The <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard">online whitelist
wildcard flag</a> is applied last, only for URLs that match
neither the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online
whitelist namespace</a> nor the <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback namespace</a> and
that are not listed in the <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest-explicit" title="concept-appcache-manifest-explicit">explicit
section</a>.</p>
</div>
<h4 id="downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache"><span class="secno">5.6.4 </span>Downloading or updating an application cache</h4>
<p>When the user agent is required (by other parts of this
specification) to start the <dfn id="application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</dfn> for an <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> purported to identify
a <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a>, or for an
<a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a>, potentially given a particular
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a>, and potentially given a <a href="#concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">master</a> resource, the user
agent must run the steps below. These steps are always run
asynchronously, in parallel with the <a href="webappapis.html#event-loop">event loop</a> <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">tasks</a>.</p>
<p>Some of these steps have requirements that only apply if the user
agent <dfn id="shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</dfn>. Support for this is
optional. Caching progress UI could consist of a progress bar or
message panel in the user agent's interface, or an overlay, or
something else. Certain events fired during the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application
cache download process</a> allow the script to override the display
of such an interface. The goal of this is to allow Web applications
to provide more seamless update mechanisms, hiding from the user the
mechanics of the application cache mechanism. User agents may
display user interfaces independent of this, but are encouraged to
not show prominent update progress notifications for applications
that cancel the relevant events.</p>
<p class="note">These events are delayed until after the <code title="event-load">load</code> event has fired.</p>
<p>The <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download process</a> steps are as
follows:
</p><ol><li><p>Optionally, wait until the permission to start the
<a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download process</a> has been obtained
from the user and until the user agent is confident that the
network is available. This could include doing nothing until the
user explicitly opts-in to caching the site, or could involve
prompting the user for permission. The algorithm might never get
past this point. (This step is particularly intended to be used by
user agents running on severely space-constrained devices or in
highly privacy-sensitive environments).</p></li>
<li>
<p>Atomically, so as to avoid race conditions, perform the
following substeps:</p>
<ol><li>
<p>Pick the appropriate substeps:</p>
<dl class="switch"><dt>If these steps were invoked with an <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute
URL</a> purported to identify a <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a></dt>
<dd>
<p>Let <var title="">manifest URL</var> be that <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute
URL</a>.</p>
<p>If there is no <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a>
identified by <var title="">manifest URL</var>, then create a
new <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> identified by <var title="">manifest URL</var>. Initially, it has no <a href="#application-cache" title="application cache">application caches</a>. One will
be created later in this algorithm.</p>
</dd>
<dt>If these steps were invoked with an <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache
group</a></dt>
<dd>
<p>Let <var title="">manifest URL</var> be the <a href="urls.html#absolute-url">absolute
URL</a> of the <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a> used to
identify the <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> to be
updated.</p>
<p>If that <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> is <a href="#concept-appcache-obsolete" title="concept-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a>, then abort
this instance of the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</a>. This can happen if another instance of this
algorithm found the manifest to be 404 or 410 while this
algorithm was waiting in the first step above.</p>
</dd>
</dl></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">cache group</var> be the
<a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> identified by <var title="">manifest URL</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>If these steps were invoked with a <a href="#concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">master</a> resource, then add
the resource, along with the resource's <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code>, to
<var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>If these steps were invoked with a <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>, and the <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">status</a> of <var title="">cache group</var> is <i>checking</i> or
<i>downloading</i>, then <a href="#queue-a-post-load-task">queue a post-load task</a> to
<a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> named <code title="event-appcache-checking"><a href="#event-appcache-checking">checking</a></code> that is
cancelable at the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of that
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a>. The default action of this event must
be, if the user agent <a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the
display of some sort of user interface indicating to the user
that the user agent is checking to see if it can download the
application.</p></li>
<li><p>If these steps were invoked with a <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>, and the <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">status</a> of <var title="">cache group</var> is <i>downloading</i>, then also
<a href="#queue-a-post-load-task">queue a post-load task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple
event</a> named <code title="event-appcache-downloading"><a href="#event-appcache-downloading">downloading</a></code> that is
cancelable at the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of that
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a>. The default action of this event must
be, if the user agent <a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the
display of some sort of user interface indicating to the user the
application is being downloaded.</p></li>
<li><p>If the <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">status</a>
of the <var title="">cache group</var> is either <i>checking</i>
or <i>downloading</i>, then abort this instance of the
<a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download process</a>, as an update is
already in progress.</p></li>
<li><p>Set the <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">status</a> of <var title="">cache group</var> to <i>checking</i>.</p>
</li><li><p>For each <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache
group</var>, <a href="#queue-a-post-load-task">queue a post-load task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a
simple event</a> that is cancelable named <code title="event-appcache-checking"><a href="#event-appcache-checking">checking</a></code> at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>. The default action of these events must be, if the
user agent <a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of
some sort of user interface indicating to the user that the user
agent is checking for the availability of updates.</p></li>
</ol><p class="note">The remainder of the steps run asynchronously.</p>
<p>If <var title="">cache group</var> already has an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in it, then this is an <dfn id="concept-appcache-upgrade" title="concept-appcache-upgrade">upgrade attempt</dfn>. Otherwise,
this is a <dfn id="concept-appcache-cache" title="concept-appcache-cache">cache
attempt</dfn>.</p>
</li>
<li><p>If this is a <a href="#concept-appcache-cache" title="concept-appcache-cache">cache
attempt</a>, then this algorithm was invoked with a <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>; <a href="#queue-a-post-load-task">queue a post-load task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a
simple event</a> named <code title="event-appcache-checking"><a href="#event-appcache-checking">checking</a></code> that is cancelable
at the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of that <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>. The default action of this event must be, if the user
agent <a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some sort
of user interface indicating to the user that the user agent is
checking for the availability of updates.</p></li>
<li>
<p><i>Fetching the manifest</i>: <a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch">Fetch</a> the resource
from <var title="">manifest URL</var> with the <i>synchronous
flag</i> set, and let <var title="">manifest</var> be that
resource.</p>
<p>If the resource is labeled with the <a href="infrastructure.html#mime-type">MIME type</a>
<code><a href="iana.html#text-cache-manifest">text/cache-manifest</a></code>, parse <var title="">manifest</var> according to the <a href="#parse-a-manifest" title="parse a
manifest">rules for parsing manifests</a>, obtaining a list of
<a href="#concept-appcache-explicit" title="concept-appcache-explicit">explicit entries</a>,
<a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback entries</a>
and the <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback
namespaces</a> that map to them, entries for the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist</a>,
and a value for the <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard">online whitelist
wildcard flag</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If <i>fetching the manifest</i> fails due to a 404 or 410
response <a href="fetching-resources.html#concept-http-equivalent-codes" title="concept-http-equivalent-codes">or
equivalent</a>, then run these substeps:</p>
<ol><li><p>Mark <var title="">cache group</var> as <a href="#concept-appcache-obsolete" title="concept-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a>. This <var title="">cache group</var> no longer exists for any purpose other
than the processing of <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> objects already
associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in the <var title="">cache group</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">task list</var> be an empty list of
<a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">tasks</a>.</p>
</li><li><p>For each <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache
group</var>, create a <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> to
<a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> named <code title="event-appcache-obsolete"><a href="#event-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a></code> that is
cancelable at the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a>, and append it to <var title="">task
list</var>. The default action of these events must be, if the
user agent <a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of
some sort of user interface indicating to the user that the
application is no longer available for offline use.</p></li>
<li><p>For each entry in <var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</a>, create a <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a>
to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> that is cancelable named
<code title="event-appcache-error"><a href="#event-appcache-error">error</a></code> (not <code title="event-appcache-obsolete"><a href="#event-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a></code>!) at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> for this entry, if there
still is one, and append it to <var title="">task list</var>. The
default action of this event must be, if the user agent
<a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some sort of
user interface indicating to the user that the user agent failed
to save the application for offline use.</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">cache group</var> has an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> whose <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</a> is
<i>incomplete</i>, then discard that <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a>.</p>
</li><li><p>If appropriate, remove any user interface indicating that
an update for this cache is in progress.</p></li>
<li><p>Let the <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">status</a> of <var title="">cache group</var> be <i>idle</i>.</p></li>
<li><p>For each <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> in <var title="">task list</var>, <a href="#queue-a-post-load-task" title="queue a post-load
task">queue that task as a post-load task</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Abort the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</a>.</p></li>
</ol></li>
<li>
<p>Otherwise, if <i>fetching the manifest</i> fails in some other
way (e.g. the server returns another 4xx or 5xx response <a href="fetching-resources.html#concept-http-equivalent-codes" title="concept-http-equivalent-codes">or equivalent</a>, or
there is a DNS error, or the connection times out, or the user
cancels the download, or the parser for manifests fails when
checking the magic signature), or if the server returned a
redirect, or if the resource is labeled with a <a href="infrastructure.html#mime-type">MIME
type</a> other than <code><a href="iana.html#text-cache-manifest">text/cache-manifest</a></code>, then run
the <a href="#cache-failure-steps">cache failure steps</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If this is an <a href="#concept-appcache-upgrade" title="concept-appcache-upgrade">upgrade
attempt</a> and the newly downloaded <var title="">manifest</var> is byte-for-byte identical to the manifest
found in the <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newest</a>
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache group</var>,
or the server reported it as "304 Not Modified" <a href="fetching-resources.html#concept-http-equivalent-codes" title="concept-http-equivalent-codes">or equivalent</a>, then
run these substeps:</p>
<ol><li><p>Let <var title="">cache</var> be the <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newest</a> <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> in <var title="">cache group</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">task list</var> be an empty list of
<a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">tasks</a>.</p>
</li><li>
<p>For each entry in <var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</a>, wait for the resource for this entry to have
either completely downloaded or failed.</p>
<p>If the download failed (e.g. the connection times out, or the
user cancels the download), then create a <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple
event</a> that is cancelable named <code title="event-appcache-error"><a href="#event-appcache-error">error</a></code> at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> for this entry, if there
still is one, and append it to <var title="">task list</var>. The
default action of this event must be, if the user agent
<a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some sort of
user interface indicating to the user that the user agent failed
to save the application for offline use.</p>
<p>Otherwise, associate the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> for this entry
with <var title="">cache</var>; store the resource for this
entry in <var title="">cache</var>, if it isn't already there,
and categorize its entry as a <a href="#concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">master entry</a>. If the
resource's <a href="urls.html#url">URL</a> has a <a href="urls.html#url-fragment" title="url-fragment">&lt;fragment&gt;</a> component, it must
be removed from the entry in <var title="">cache</var>
(application caches never include fragment identifiers).</p>
<p class="note">HTTP caching rules, such as <code title="">Cache-Control: no-store</code>, are ignored for the
purposes of the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</a>.</p>
</li>
<li><p>For each <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache
group</var>, create a <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> to
<a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> that is cancelable named <code title="event-appcache-noupdate"><a href="#event-appcache-noupdate">noupdate</a></code> at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>, and append it to <var title="">task list</var>. The
default action of these events must be, if the user agent
<a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some sort of
user interface indicating to the user that the application is up
to date.</p></li>
<li><p>Empty <var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>If appropriate, remove any user interface indicating that
an update for this cache is in progress.</p></li>
<li><p>Let the <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">status</a> of <var title="">cache group</var> be <i>idle</i>.</p></li>
<li><p>For each <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> in <var title="">task list</var>, <a href="#queue-a-post-load-task" title="queue a post-load
task">queue that task as a post-load task</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Abort the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</a>.</p></li>
</ol></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">new cache</var> be a newly created
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache
group</var>. Set its <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</a> to
<i>incomplete</i>.</p></li>
<li><p>For each entry in <var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</a>, associate the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> for this entry
with <var title="">new cache</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>Set the <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">status</a>
of <var title="">cache group</var> to <i>downloading</i>.</p></li>
<li><p>For each <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache group</var>,
<a href="#queue-a-post-load-task">queue a post-load task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple
event</a> that is cancelable named <code title="event-appcache-downloading"><a href="#event-appcache-downloading">downloading</a></code> at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>. The default action of these events must be, if the
user agent <a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some
sort of user interface indicating to the user that a new version is
being downloaded.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">file list</var> be an empty list of
URLs with flags.</p></li>
<li><p>Add all the URLs in the list of <a href="#concept-appcache-explicit" title="concept-appcache-explicit">explicit entries</a> obtained
by parsing <var title="">manifest</var> to <var title="">file
list</var>, each flagged with "explicit entry".</p></li>
<li><p>Add all the URLs in the list of <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback entries</a> obtained
by parsing <var title="">manifest</var> to <var title="">file
list</var>, each flagged with "fallback entry".</p></li>
<li><p>If this is an <a href="#concept-appcache-upgrade" title="concept-appcache-upgrade">upgrade
attempt</a>, then add all the URLs of <a href="#concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">master entries</a> in the <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newest</a> <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> in <var title="">cache group</var> whose <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</a> is
<i>complete</i> to <var title="">file list</var>, each flagged with
"master entry".</p></li>
<li><p>If any URL is in <var title="">file list</var> more than
once, then merge the entries into one entry for that URL, that
entry having all the flags that the original entries had.</p></li>
<li>
<p>For each URL in <var title="">file list</var>, run the
following steps. These steps may be run in parallel for two or
more of the URLs at a time.</p>
<ol><li>
<p>If the resource URL being processed was flagged as neither an
"explicit entry" nor or a "fallback entry", then the user agent
may skip this URL.</p>
<p class="note">This is intended to allow user agents to expire
resources not listed in the manifest from the cache. Generally,
implementors are urged to use an approach that expires
lesser-used resources first.</p>
</li>
<li><p>For each <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache
group</var>, <a href="#queue-a-post-load-task">queue a post-load task</a> to fire an event
with the name <code title="event-appcache-progress"><a href="#event-appcache-progress">progress</a></code>, which does not
bubble, which is cancelable, and which uses the
<code>ProgressEvent</code> interface, at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>. The <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-lengthComputable">lengthComputable</code>
attribute must be set to true, the <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-total">total</code> attribute must be
set to the number of files in <var title="">file list</var>, and
the <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-loaded">loaded</code>
attribute must be set to the number of number of files in <var title="">file list</var> that have been either downloaded or
skipped so far. The default action of these events must be, if
the user agent <a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display
of some sort of user interface indicating to the user that a file
is being downloaded in preparation for updating the
application. <a href="references.html#refsPROGRESS">[PROGRESS]</a></p></li>
<li>
<p><a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch">Fetch</a> the resource, from the <a href="origin-0.html#origin">origin</a>
of the <a href="urls.html#url">URL</a> <var title="">manifest URL</var>, with
the <i>synchronous flag</i> set and the <i>manual redirect
flag</i> set. If this is an <a href="#concept-appcache-upgrade" title="concept-appcache-upgrade">upgrade attempt</a>, then
use the <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newest</a>
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache
group</var> as an HTTP cache, and honor HTTP caching semantics
(such as expiration, ETags, and so forth) with respect to that
cache. User agents may also have other caches in place that are
also honored.</p>
<p class="note">If the resource in question is already being
downloaded for other reasons then the existing download process
can sometimes be used for the purposes of this step, as defined
by the <a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch" title="fetch">fetching</a> algorithm.</p>
<p class="example">An example of a resource that might already
be being downloaded is a large image on a Web page that is being
seen for the first time. The image would get downloaded to
satisfy the <code><a href="embedded-content-1.html#the-img-element">img</a></code> element on the page, as well as
being listed in the cache manifest. According to the rules for
<a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch" title="fetch">fetching</a> that image only need be
downloaded once, and it can be used both for the cache and for
the rendered Web page.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If the previous step fails (e.g. the server returns a 4xx or
5xx response <a href="fetching-resources.html#concept-http-equivalent-codes" title="concept-http-equivalent-codes">or
equivalent</a>, or there is a DNS error, or the connection
times out, or the user cancels the download), or if the server
returned a redirect, then run the first appropriate step from
the following list:</p>
<dl class="switch"><dt>If the URL being processed was flagged as an "explicit
entry" or a "fallback entry"</dt>
<dd>
<p>Run the <a href="#cache-failure-steps">cache failure steps</a>.</p>
<p class="note">Redirects are fatal because they are either
indicative of a network problem (e.g. a captive portal); or
would allow resources to be added to the cache under URLs that
differ from any URL that the networking model will allow
access to, leaving orphan entries; or would allow resources to
be stored under URLs different than their true URLs. All of
these situations are bad.</p>
</dd>
<dt>If the error was a 404 or 410 HTTP response <a href="fetching-resources.html#concept-http-equivalent-codes" title="concept-http-equivalent-codes">or equivalent</a></dt>
<dd>
<p>Skip this resource. It is dropped from the cache.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Otherwise</dt>
<dd>
<p>Copy the resource and its metadata from the <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newest</a> <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> in <var title="">cache group</var> whose <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</a>
is <i>complete</i>, and act as if that was the fetched
resource, ignoring the resource obtained from the network.</p>
</dd>
</dl><p>User agents may warn the user of these errors as an aid to
development.</p>
<p class="note">These rules make errors for resources listed in
the manifest fatal, while making it possible for other resources
to be removed from caches when they are removed from the server,
without errors, and making non-manifest resources survive
server-side errors.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Otherwise, the fetching succeeded. Store the resource in
the <var title="">new cache</var>.</p>
<p>If the user agent is not able to store the resource (e.g.
because of quota restrictions), the user agent may prompt the
user or try to resolve the problem in some other manner (e.g.
automatically pruning content in other caches). If the problem
cannot be resolved, the user agent must run the <a href="#cache-failure-steps">cache
failure steps</a>.</p>
</li>
<li><p>If the URL being processed was flagged as an "explicit
entry" in <var title="">file list</var>, then categorize the
entry as an <a href="#concept-appcache-explicit" title="concept-appcache-explicit">explicit
entry</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>If the URL being processed was flagged as a "fallback
entry" in <var title="">file list</var>, then categorize the
entry as a <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback
entry</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>If the URL being processed was flagged as an "master
entry" in <var title="">file list</var>, then categorize the
entry as a <a href="#concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">master
entry</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>As an optimization, if the resource is an HTML or XML file
whose root element is an <code><a href="semantics.html#the-html-element">html</a></code> element with a <code title="attr-html-manifest"><a href="semantics.html#attr-html-manifest">manifest</a></code> attribute whose value
doesn't match the manifest URL of the application cache being
processed, then the user agent should mark the entry as being
<a href="#concept-appcache-foreign" title="concept-appcache-foreign">foreign</a>.</p>
</li></ol></li>
<li><p>For each <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache group</var>,
<a href="#queue-a-post-load-task">queue a post-load task</a> to fire an event with the name
<code title="event-appcache-progress"><a href="#event-appcache-progress">progress</a></code>, which does
not bubble, which is cancelable, and which uses the
<code>ProgressEvent</code> interface, at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>. The <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-lengthComputable">lengthComputable</code>
attribute must be set to true, the <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-total">total</code> and the <code title="dom-ProgressEvents-loaded">loaded</code> attributes must be
set to the number of number of files in <var title="">file
list</var>. The default action of these events must be, if the user
agent <a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some sort
of user interface indicating to the user that all the files have
been downloaded. <a href="references.html#refsPROGRESS">[PROGRESS]</a></p></li>
<li><p>Store the list of <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback namespaces</a>,
and the URLs of the <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback entries</a> that they
map to, in <var title="">new cache</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>Store the URLs that form the new <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online whitelist</a> in
<var title="">new cache</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>Store the value of the new <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard">online whitelist
wildcard flag</a> in <var title="">new cache</var>.</p></li>
<li>
<p>For each entry in <var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</a>, wait for the resource for this entry to have
either completely downloaded or failed.</p>
<p>If the download failed (e.g. the connection times out, or the
user cancels the download), then run these substeps:</p>
<ol><li><p>Unassociate the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> for this entry from
<var title="">new cache</var>.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="#queue-a-post-load-task">Queue a post-load task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple
event</a> that is cancelable named <code title="event-appcache-error"><a href="#event-appcache-error">error</a></code> at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the
<code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> for this entry, if there still is one. The
default action of this event must be, if the user agent
<a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some sort of
user interface indicating to the user that the user agent failed
to save the application for offline use.</p>
</li><li>
<p>If this is a <a href="#concept-appcache-cache" title="concept-appcache-cache">cache
attempt</a> and this entry is the last entry in <var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</a>, then run these further substeps:</p>
<ol><li><p>Discard <var title="">cache group</var> and its only
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>, <var title="">new
cache</var>.</p>
</li><li><p>If appropriate, remove any user interface indicating
that an update for this cache is in progress.</p></li>
<li><p>Abort the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</a>.</p></li>
</ol></li>
<li><p>Otherwise, remove this entry from <var title="">cache
group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list
of pending master entries</a>.</p></li>
</ol><p>Otherwise, store the resource for this entry in <var title="">new cache</var>, if it isn't already there, and
categorize its entry as a <a href="#concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">master entry</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch">Fetch</a> the resource from <var title="">manifest
URL</var> again, with the <i>synchronous flag</i> set, and let
<var title="">second manifest</var> be that resource.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If the previous step failed for any reason, or if the fetching
attempt involved a redirect, or if <var title="">second
manifest</var> and <var title="">manifest</var> are not
byte-for-byte identical, then schedule a rerun of the entire
algorithm with the same parameters after a short delay, and run
the <a href="#cache-failure-steps">cache failure steps</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Otherwise, store <var title="">manifest</var> in <var title="">new cache</var>, if it's not there already, and
categorize its entry as <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">the manifest</a>.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Set the <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</a> of
<var title="">new cache</var> to <i>complete</i>.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">task list</var> be an empty list of <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">tasks</a>.</p>
</li><li>
<p>If this is a <a href="#concept-appcache-cache" title="concept-appcache-cache">cache
attempt</a>, then for each <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> associated
with an <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache
group</var>, create a <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> to
<a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> that is cancelable named <code title="event-appcache-cached"><a href="#event-appcache-cached">cached</a></code> at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>, and append it to <var title="">task list</var>. The
default action of these events must be, if the user agent
<a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some sort of
user interface indicating to the user that the application has
been cached and that they can now use it offline.</p>
<p>Otherwise, it is an <a href="#concept-appcache-upgrade" title="concept-appcache-upgrade">upgrade attempt</a>. For each
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> in <var title="">cache group</var>, create a <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple
event</a> that is cancelable named <code title="event-appcache-updateready"><a href="#event-appcache-updateready">updateready</a></code> at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>, and append it to <var title="">task list</var>. The
default action of these events must be, if the user agent
<a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some sort of
user interface indicating to the user that a new version is
available and that they can activate it by reloading the page.</p>
</li>
<li><p>If appropriate, remove any user interface indicating that
an update for this cache is in progress.</p></li>
<li><p>Set the <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">update
status</a> of <var title="">cache group</var> to
<i>idle</i>.</p></li>
<li><p>For each <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> in <var title="">task list</var>, <a href="#queue-a-post-load-task" title="queue a post-load
task">queue that task as a post-load task</a>.</p></li>
</ol><p>The <dfn id="cache-failure-steps">cache failure steps</dfn> are as follows:</p>
<ol><li><p>Let <var title="">task list</var> be an empty list of <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">tasks</a>.</p>
</li><li>
<p>For each entry in <var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</a>, run the following further substeps. These steps
may be run in parallel for two or more entries at a time.</p>
<ol><li><p>Wait for the resource for this entry to have either
completely downloaded or failed.</p>
</li><li><p>Unassociate the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> for this entry from
its <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>, if it has one.</p></li>
<li><p>Create a <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> to
<a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> that is cancelable named <code title="event-appcache-error"><a href="#event-appcache-error">error</a></code> at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the
<code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> for this entry, if there still is one, and
append it to <var title="">task list</var>. The default action of
these events must be, if the user agent <a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching
progress</a>, the display of some sort of user interface
indicating to the user that the user agent failed to save the
application for offline use.</p>
</li></ol></li>
<li><p>For each <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> still associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> in <var title="">cache group</var>,
create a <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> to <a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a
simple event</a> that is cancelable named <code title="event-appcache-error"><a href="#event-appcache-error">error</a></code> at the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> singleton of the <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a>, and append it to <var title="">task list</var>. The
default action of these events must be, if the user agent
<a href="#shows-caching-progress">shows caching progress</a>, the display of some sort of
user interface indicating to the user that the user agent failed to
save the application for offline use.</p></li>
<li><p>Empty <var title="">cache group</var>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-pending-masters" title="concept-appcache-pending-masters">list of pending master
entries</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">cache group</var> has an <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> whose <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</a> is
<i>incomplete</i>, then discard that <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a>.</p>
</li><li><p>If appropriate, remove any user interface indicating that an
update for this cache is in progress.</p></li>
<li><p>Let the <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">status</a>
of <var title="">cache group</var> be <i>idle</i>.</p></li>
<li><p>If this was a <a href="#concept-appcache-cache" title="concept-appcache-cache">cache
attempt</a>, discard <var title="">cache group</var>
altogether.</p>
</li><li><p>For each <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> in <var title="">task list</var>, <a href="#queue-a-post-load-task" title="queue a post-load
task">queue that task as a post-load task</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Abort the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</a>.</p></li>
</ol><p>Attempts to <a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch">fetch</a> resources as part of the
<a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download process</a> may be done with
cache-defeating semantics, to avoid problems with stale or
inconsistent intermediary caches.</p>
<hr><p>User agents may invoke the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</a>, in the background, for any <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a>, at any time (with no <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a>). This
allows user agents to keep caches primed and to update caches even
before the user visits a site.</p>
<hr><p>Each <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> has a list of <dfn id="pending-application-cache-download-process-tasks">pending application
cache download process tasks</dfn> that is used to delay events
fired by the algorithm above until the document's <code title="event-load">load</code> event has fired. When the
<code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> is created, the list must be empty.</p>
<p>When the steps above say to <dfn id="queue-a-post-load-task">queue a post-load task</dfn>
<var title="">task</var>, where <var title="">task</var> is a <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">task</a> that dispatches an event on a
target <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object <var title="">target</var>, the user agent must run the appropriate steps
from the following list:</p>
<dl><dt>If <var title="">target</var>'s <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> is
<a href="the-end.html#ready-for-post-load-tasks">ready for post-load tasks</a></dt>
<dd><p><a href="webappapis.html#queue-a-task" title="queue a task">Queue</a> the task <var title="">task</var>.</p></dd>
<dt>Otherwise</dt>
<dd><p>Add <var title="">task</var> to <var title="">target</var>'s
<code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code>'s list of <a href="#pending-application-cache-download-process-tasks">pending application cache
download process tasks</a>.</p></dd>
</dl><p>The <a href="webappapis.html#task-source">task source</a> for these <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">tasks</a> is the <a href="webappapis.html#networking-task-source">networking task
source</a>.</p>
<h4 id="the-application-cache-selection-algorithm"><span class="secno">5.6.5 </span>The application cache selection algorithm</h4>
<p>When the <dfn id="concept-appcache-init" title="concept-appcache-init">application cache
selection algorithm</dfn> algorithm is invoked with a
<code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> <var title="">document</var> and optionally a
manifest <a href="urls.html#url">URL</a> <var title="">manifest URL</var>, the user
agent must run the first applicable set of steps from the following
list:</p>
<dl class="switch"><dt>If there is a <var title="">manifest URL</var>, and <var title="">document</var> was loaded from an <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a>, and the URL of the <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a> of that cache's
<a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> is <em>not</em> the same as
<var title="">manifest URL</var></dt>
<dd>
<p>Mark the entry for the resource from which <var title="">document</var> was taken in the <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> from which it was loaded as <a href="#concept-appcache-foreign" title="concept-appcache-foreign">foreign</a>.</p>
<p>Restart the current navigation from the top of the <a href="history.html#navigate" title="navigate">navigation algorithm</a>, undoing any changes
that were made as part of the initial load (changes can be avoided
by ensuring that the step to <a href="history.html#update-the-session-history-with-the-new-page">update the session history with
the new page</a> is only ever completed <em>after</em> this
<a href="#concept-appcache-init" title="concept-appcache-init">application cache selection
algorithm</a> is run, though this is not required).</p>
<p class="note">The navigation will not result in the same
resource being loaded, because "foreign" entries are never picked
during navigation.</p>
<p>User agents may notify the user of the inconsistency between
the cache manifest and the document's own metadata, to aid in
application development.</p>
</dd>
<dt>If <var title="">document</var> was loaded from an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>, and that <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> still exists (it is not now <a href="#concept-appcache-obsolete" title="concept-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a>)</dt>
<dd>
<p>Associate <var title="">document</var> with the
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> from which it was loaded. Invoke,
in the background, the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</a> for that <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>'s
<a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a>, with <var title="">document</var> as the <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>If <var title="">document</var> was loaded using
HTTP GET <a href="fetching-resources.html#concept-http-equivalent-get" title="concept-http-equivalent-get">or
equivalent</a>, and, there is a <var title="">manifest
URL</var>, and <var title="">manifest URL</var> has the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin">same
origin</a> as <var title="">document</var></dt>
<dd>
<p>Invoke, in the background, the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download
process</a> for <var title="">manifest URL</var>, with <var title="">document</var> as the <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> and with
the resource from which <var title="">document</var> was parsed as
the <a href="#concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">master</a>
resource.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Otherwise</dt>
<dd>
<p>The <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> is not associated with any
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>.</p>
<p>If there was a <var title="">manifest URL</var>, the user agent
may report to the user that it was ignored, to aid in application
development.</p>
</dd>
</dl><h4 id="changesToNetworkingModel"><span class="secno">5.6.6 </span>Changes to the networking model</h4>
<p>When a <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> is associated with an
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> whose <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</a> is
<i>complete</i>, any and all loads for resources related to that
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> other than those for <a href="browsers.html#child-browsing-context" title="child
browsing context">child browsing contexts</a> must go through the
following steps instead of immediately invoking the mechanisms
appropriate to that resource's scheme:</p>
<ol><li><p>If the resource is not to be fetched using the HTTP GET
mechanism <a href="fetching-resources.html#concept-http-equivalent-get" title="concept-http-equivalent-get">or
equivalent</a>, or if its <a href="urls.html#url">URL</a> has a different <a href="urls.html#url-scheme" title="url-scheme">&lt;scheme&gt;</a> component than the
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a>, then
<a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch">fetch</a> the resource normally and abort these
steps.</p></li>
<li><p>If the resource's URL is <a href="#concept-appcache-master" title="concept-appcache-master">a master entry</a>, <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">the manifest</a>, <a href="#concept-appcache-explicit" title="concept-appcache-explicit">an explicit entry</a>, or
<a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">a fallback entry</a> in
the <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>, then get the resource from the
cache (instead of fetching it), and abort these steps.</p></li>
<li><p>If there is an entry in the <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>'s
<a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist">online
whitelist</a> that has the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin">same origin</a> as the
resource's URL and that is a <a href="infrastructure.html#prefix-match">prefix match</a> for the
resource's URL, then <a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch">fetch</a> the resource normally and
abort these steps.</p></li>
<li>
<p>If the resource's URL has the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin">same origin</a> as the
manifest's URL, and there is a <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback namespace</a>
<var title="">f</var> in the <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> that
is a <a href="infrastructure.html#prefix-match">prefix match</a> for the resource's URL, then:</p>
<p><a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch">Fetch</a> the resource normally. If this results in a
redirect to a resource with another <a href="origin-0.html#origin">origin</a>
(indicative of a captive portal), or a 4xx or 5xx status code
<a href="fetching-resources.html#concept-http-equivalent-codes" title="concept-http-equivalent-codes">or equivalent</a>,
or if there were network errors (but not if the user canceled the
download), then instead get, from the cache, the resource of the
<a href="#concept-appcache-fallback" title="concept-appcache-fallback">fallback entry</a>
corresponding to the <a href="#concept-appcache-fallback-ns" title="concept-appcache-fallback-ns">fallback namespace</a>
<var title="">f</var>. Abort these steps.</p>
</li>
<li><p>If the <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard">online whitelist
wildcard flag</a> is <i title="">open</i>, then
<a href="fetching-resources.html#fetch">fetch</a> the resource normally and abort these
steps.</p></li>
<li><p>Fail the resource load as if there had been a generic
network error.</p></li>
</ol><p class="note">The above algorithm ensures that so long as the
<a href="#concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard" title="concept-appcache-onlinewhitelist-wildcard">online
whitelist wildcard flag</a> is <i title="">blocking</i>,
resources that are not present in the <a href="#concept-appcache-manifest" title="concept-appcache-manifest">manifest</a> will always fail
to load (at least, after the <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> has been
primed the first time), making the testing of offline applications
simpler.</p>
</div><div class="impl">
<h4 id="expiring-application-caches"><span class="secno">5.6.7 </span>Expiring application caches</h4>
<p>As a general rule, user agents should not expire application
caches, except on request from the user, or after having been left
unused for an extended period of time.</p>
<p>Application caches and cookies have similar implications with
respect to privacy (e.g. if the site can identify the user when
providing the cache, it can store data in the cache that can be used
for cookie resurrection). Implementors are therefore encouraged to
expose application caches in a manner related to HTTP cookies,
allowing caches to be expunged together with cookies and other
origin-specific data.</p>
<p class="example">For example, a user agent could have a "delete
site-specific data" feature that clears all cookies, application
caches, local storage, databases, etc, from an origin all at
once.</p>
</div><div class="impl">
<h4 id="disk-space"><span class="secno">5.6.8 </span>Disk space</h4>
<p>User agents should consider applying constraints on disk usage of
<a href="#application-cache" title="application cache">application caches</a>, and care
should be taken to ensure that the restrictions cannot be easily
worked around using subdomains.</p>
<p>User agents should allow users to see how much space each domain
is using, and may offer the user the ability to delete specific
<a href="#application-cache" title="application cache">application caches</a>.</p>
<p class="note">How quotas are presented to the user is not defined
by this specification. User agents are encouraged to provide
features such as allowing a user to indicate that certain sites are
trusted to use more than the default quota, e.g. by asynchronously
presenting a user interface while a cache is being updated, or by
having an explicit whitelist in the user agent's configuration
interface.</p>
</div><h4 id="application-cache-api"><span class="secno">5.6.9 </span>Application cache API</h4><pre class="idl">interface <dfn id="applicationcache">ApplicationCache</dfn> {
// <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">update status</a>
const unsigned short <a href="#dom-appcache-uncached" title="dom-appcache-UNCACHED">UNCACHED</a> = 0;
const unsigned short <a href="#dom-appcache-idle" title="dom-appcache-IDLE">IDLE</a> = 1;
const unsigned short <a href="#dom-appcache-checking" title="dom-appcache-CHECKING">CHECKING</a> = 2;
const unsigned short <a href="#dom-appcache-downloading" title="dom-appcache-DOWNLOADING">DOWNLOADING</a> = 3;
const unsigned short <a href="#dom-appcache-updateready" title="dom-appcache-UPDATEREADY">UPDATEREADY</a> = 4;
const unsigned short <a href="#dom-appcache-obsolete" title="dom-appcache-OBSOLETE">OBSOLETE</a> = 5;
readonly attribute unsigned short <a href="#dom-appcache-status" title="dom-appcache-status">status</a>;
// updates
void <a href="#dom-appcache-update" title="dom-appcache-update">update</a>();
void <a href="#dom-appcache-swapcache" title="dom-appcache-swapCache">swapCache</a>();
// events
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="#handler-appcache-onchecking" title="handler-appcache-onchecking">onchecking</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="#handler-appcache-onerror" title="handler-appcache-onerror">onerror</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="#handler-appcache-onnoupdate" title="handler-appcache-onnoupdate">onnoupdate</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="#handler-appcache-ondownloading" title="handler-appcache-ondownloading">ondownloading</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="#handler-appcache-onprogress" title="handler-appcache-onprogress">onprogress</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="#handler-appcache-onupdateready" title="handler-appcache-onupdateready">onupdateready</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="#handler-appcache-oncached" title="handler-appcache-oncached">oncached</a>;
attribute <a href="webappapis.html#function">Function</a> <a href="#handler-appcache-onobsolete" title="handler-appcache-onobsolete">onobsolete</a>;
};
<a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a> implements <a href="infrastructure.html#eventtarget">EventTarget</a>;</pre><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">cache</var> = <var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-applicationCache"><a href="#dom-applicationcache">applicationCache</a></code></dt>
<dd>
<p>(In a window.) Returns the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object that applies to the <a href="browsers.html#active-document">active document</a> of that <code><a href="browsers.html#window">Window</a></code>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><var title="">cache</var> = <var title="">self</var> . <code title="dom-applicationCache"><a href="#dom-applicationcache">applicationCache</a></code></dt>
<dd>
<p>(In a shared worker.) Returns the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object that applies to the current shared worker.
<a href="references.html#refsWEBWORKERS">[WEBWORKERS]</a>
</p>
</dd>
<dt><var title="">cache</var> . <code title="dom-appcache-status"><a href="#dom-appcache-status">status</a></code></dt>
<dd>
<p>Returns the current status of the application cache, as given by the constants defined below.</p>
</dd>
<dt><var title="">cache</var> . <code title="dom-appcache-update"><a href="#dom-appcache-update">update</a></code>()</dt>
<dd>
<p>Invokes the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache download process</a>.</p>
<p>Throws an <code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#invalid_state_err">INVALID_STATE_ERR</a></code> exception if there is no application cache to update.</p>
</dd>
<dt><var title="">cache</var> . <code title="dom-appcache-swapCache"><a href="#dom-appcache-swapcache">swapCache</a></code>()</dt>
<dd>
<p>Switches to the most recent application cache, if there is a
newer one. If there isn't, throws an
<code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#invalid_state_err">INVALID_STATE_ERR</a></code> exception.</p>
<p>This does not cause previously-loaded resources to be reloaded;
for example, images do not suddenly get reloaded and style sheets
and scripts do not get reparsed or reevaluated. The only change is
that subsequent requests for cached resources will obtain the
newer copies.</p>
</dd>
</dl><div class="impl">
<p>There is a one-to-one mapping from <a href="#cache-host" title="cache host">cache
hosts</a> to <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> objects. The <dfn id="dom-applicationcache" title="dom-applicationCache"><code>applicationCache</code></dfn>
attribute on <code><a href="browsers.html#window">Window</a></code> objects must return the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object associated with the
<code><a href="browsers.html#window">Window</a></code> object's <a href="browsers.html#active-document">active document</a>. The <dfn id="dom-sharedworkerglobalscope-applicationcache" title="dom-SharedWorkerGlobalScope-applicationCache"><code>applicationCache</code></dfn>
attribute on <code>SharedWorkerGlobalScope</code> objects must
return the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object associated with the
worker.
<a href="references.html#refsWEBWORKERS">[WEBWORKERS]</a>
</p>
<p class="note">A <code><a href="browsers.html#window">Window</a></code> or
<code>SharedWorkerGlobalScope</code> object has an associated
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object even if that <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> has no actual <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>.</p>
<hr><p>The <dfn id="dom-appcache-status" title="dom-appcache-status"><code>status</code></dfn>
attribute, on getting, must return the current state of the
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> that the
<code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> is
associated with, if any. This must be the appropriate value from the
following list:</p>
</div><dl><dt><dfn id="dom-appcache-uncached" title="dom-appcache-UNCACHED"><code>UNCACHED</code></dfn>
(numeric value 0)</dt>
<dd><p>The <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> is not associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> at this time.</p></dd>
<dt><dfn id="dom-appcache-idle" title="dom-appcache-IDLE"><code>IDLE</code></dfn>
(numeric value 1)</dt>
<dd><p>The <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> is associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>
whose <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">update status</a> is
<i>idle</i>, and that <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> is the <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newest</a> cache in its
<a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a>, and the <a href="#application-cache-group">application
cache group</a> is not marked as <a href="#concept-appcache-obsolete" title="concept-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a>.</p></dd>
<dt><dfn id="dom-appcache-checking" title="dom-appcache-CHECKING"><code>CHECKING</code></dfn>
(numeric value 2)</dt>
<dd><p>The <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> is associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>
whose <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">update status</a> is
<i>checking</i>.</p></dd>
<dt><dfn id="dom-appcache-downloading" title="dom-appcache-DOWNLOADING"><code>DOWNLOADING</code></dfn>
(numeric value 3)</dt>
<dd><p>The <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> is associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>
whose <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">update status</a> is
<i>downloading</i>.</p></dd>
<dt><dfn id="dom-appcache-updateready" title="dom-appcache-UPDATEREADY"><code>UPDATEREADY</code></dfn>
(numeric value 4)</dt>
<dd><p>The <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> is associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>
whose <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a>'s <a href="#concept-appcache-status" title="concept-appcache-status">update status</a> is
<i>idle</i>, and whose <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> is not
marked as <a href="#concept-appcache-obsolete" title="concept-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a>,
but that <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a> is <em>not</em> the <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newest</a> cache in its
group.</p></dd>
<dt><dfn id="dom-appcache-obsolete" title="dom-appcache-OBSOLETE"><code>OBSOLETE</code></dfn>
(numeric value 5)</dt>
<dd><p>The <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's <a href="#cache-host">cache
host</a> is associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>
whose <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> is marked as <a href="#concept-appcache-obsolete" title="concept-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a>.</p></dd>
</dl><div class="impl">
<hr><p>If the <dfn id="dom-appcache-update" title="dom-appcache-update"><code>update()</code></dfn> method is
invoked, the user agent must invoke the <a href="#application-cache-download-process">application cache
download process</a>, in the background, for the <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> with which the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> is associated, but without giving that
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> to the algorithm. If there is no such
<a href="#application-cache">application cache</a>, or if it is marked as <a href="#concept-appcache-obsolete" title="concept-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a>, then the method
must raise an <code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#invalid_state_err">INVALID_STATE_ERR</a></code> exception instead.</p>
<p>If the <dfn id="dom-appcache-swapcache" title="dom-appcache-swapCache"><code>swapCache()</code></dfn> method
is invoked, the user agent must run the following steps:
</p><ol><li><p>Check that <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> is associated with an <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a>. If it is not, then raise an
<code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#invalid_state_err">INVALID_STATE_ERR</a></code> exception and abort these
steps.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">cache</var> be the <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> with which the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> is associated. (By definition, this is the
same as the one that was found in the previous step.)</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">cache</var>'s <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache
group</a> is marked as <a href="#concept-appcache-obsolete" title="concept-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a>, then unassociate
the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's <a href="#cache-host">cache host</a>
from <var title="">cache</var> and abort these steps. (Resources
will now load from the network instead of the cache.)</p></li>
<li><p>Check that there is an application cache in the same
<a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> as <var title="">cache</var>
whose <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness
flag</a> is <i>complete</i> and that is <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newer</a> than <var title="">cache</var>. If there is not, then raise an
<code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#invalid_state_err">INVALID_STATE_ERR</a></code> exception and abort these
steps.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">new cache</var> be the <a href="#concept-appcache-newer" title="concept-appcache-newer">newest</a> <a href="#application-cache">application
cache</a> in the same <a href="#application-cache-group">application cache group</a> as
<var title="">cache</var> whose <a href="#concept-appcache-completeness" title="concept-appcache-completeness">completeness flag</a> is
<i>complete</i>.</p></li>
<li><p>Unassociate the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code> object's
<a href="#cache-host">cache host</a> from <var title="">cache</var> and instead
associate it with <var title="">new cache</var>.</p></li>
</ol><p>The following are the <a href="webappapis.html#event-handlers">event handlers</a> (and their
corresponding <a href="webappapis.html#event-handler-event-type" title="event handler event type">event handler
event types</a>) that must be supported, as IDL attributes, by
all objects implementing the <code><a href="#applicationcache">ApplicationCache</a></code>
interface:</p>
<table><thead><tr><th><a href="webappapis.html#event-handlers" title="event handlers">Event handler</a> </th><th><a href="webappapis.html#event-handler-event-type">Event handler event type</a>
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><dfn id="handler-appcache-onchecking" title="handler-appcache-onchecking"><code>onchecking</code></dfn> </td><td> <code title="event-appcache-checking"><a href="#event-appcache-checking">checking</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td><dfn id="handler-appcache-onerror" title="handler-appcache-onerror"><code>onerror</code></dfn> </td><td> <code title="event-appcache-error"><a href="#event-appcache-error">error</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td><dfn id="handler-appcache-onnoupdate" title="handler-appcache-onnoupdate"><code>onnoupdate</code></dfn> </td><td> <code title="event-appcache-noupdate"><a href="#event-appcache-noupdate">noupdate</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td><dfn id="handler-appcache-ondownloading" title="handler-appcache-ondownloading"><code>ondownloading</code></dfn> </td><td> <code title="event-appcache-downloading"><a href="#event-appcache-downloading">downloading</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td><dfn id="handler-appcache-onprogress" title="handler-appcache-onprogress"><code>onprogress</code></dfn> </td><td> <code title="event-appcache-progress"><a href="#event-appcache-progress">progress</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td><dfn id="handler-appcache-onupdateready" title="handler-appcache-onupdateready"><code>onupdateready</code></dfn> </td><td> <code title="event-appcache-updateready"><a href="#event-appcache-updateready">updateready</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td><dfn id="handler-appcache-oncached" title="handler-appcache-oncached"><code>oncached</code></dfn> </td><td> <code title="event-appcache-cached"><a href="#event-appcache-cached">cached</a></code>
</td></tr><tr><td><dfn id="handler-appcache-onobsolete" title="handler-appcache-onobsolete"><code>onobsolete</code></dfn> </td><td> <code title="event-appcache-obsolete"><a href="#event-appcache-obsolete">obsolete</a></code>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h4 id="browser-state"><span class="secno">5.6.10 </span>Browser state</h4><pre class="idl">[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
interface <dfn id="navigatoronline">NavigatorOnLine</dfn> {
readonly attribute boolean <a href="#dom-navigator-online" title="dom-navigator-onLine">onLine</a>;
};</pre><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-navigator"><a href="timers.html#dom-navigator">navigator</a></code> . <code title="dom-navigator-onLine"><a href="#dom-navigator-online">onLine</a></code></dt>
<dd>
<p>Returns false if the user agent is definitely offline
(disconnected from the network). Returns true if the user agent
might be online.</p>
<p>The events <code title="event-online"><a href="#event-online">online</a></code> and <code title="event-offline"><a href="#event-offline">offline</a></code> are fired when the value of
this attribute changes.</p>
</dd>
</dl><div class="impl">
<p>The <dfn id="dom-navigator-online" title="dom-navigator-onLine"><code>navigator.onLine</code></dfn>
attribute must return false if the user agent will not contact the
network when the user follows links or when a script requests a
remote page (or knows that such an attempt would fail), and must
return true otherwise.</p>
<p>When the value that would be returned by the <code title="dom-navigator-onLine"><a href="#dom-navigator-online">navigator.onLine</a></code> attribute of a
<code><a href="browsers.html#window">Window</a></code> or <code>WorkerGlobalScope</code> changes from
true to false, the user agent must <a href="webappapis.html#queue-a-task">queue a task</a> to
<a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> named <dfn id="event-offline" title="event-offline"><code>offline</code></dfn> at the
<code><a href="browsers.html#window">Window</a></code> or <code>WorkerGlobalScope</code> object.</p>
<p>On the other hand, when the value that would be returned by the
<code title="dom-navigator-onLine"><a href="#dom-navigator-online">navigator.onLine</a></code> attribute
of a <code><a href="browsers.html#window">Window</a></code> or <code>WorkerGlobalScope</code> changes
from false to true, the user agent must <a href="webappapis.html#queue-a-task">queue a task</a> to
<a href="webappapis.html#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> named <dfn id="event-online" title="event-online"><code>online</code></dfn> at the
<code><a href="browsers.html#window">Window</a></code> or <code>WorkerGlobalScope</code> object.</p>
<p>The <a href="webappapis.html#task-source">task source</a> for these <a href="webappapis.html#concept-task" title="concept-task">tasks</a> is the <a href="webappapis.html#networking-task-source">networking task
source</a>.</p>
</div><p class="note">This attribute is inherently unreliable. A computer
can be connected to a network without having Internet access.</p><div class="example">
<p>In this example, an indicator is updated as the browser goes
online and offline.</p>
<pre>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Online status&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;script&gt;
function updateIndicator() {
document.getElementById('indicator').textContext = navigator.onLine ? 'online' : 'offline';
}
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body onload="updateIndicator()" ononline="updateIndicator()" onoffline="updateIndicator()"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The network is: &lt;span id="indicator"&gt;(state unknown)&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</pre>
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