html5 application cache on ipad not working

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I am designing on offline html5 application, which works fine in desktop browser(IE, Chrome, Safari etc) and supports offline capability.

The same application will not work in iPad Safari Browser, but works fine in Chrome browser. I have set the MIME type to text/cache-manifest and also validated my manifest file online which is fine.

Are there any special settings required for the application to make it work in ipad Safari?

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2 Answers

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The problem in my cache manifest was 1. I specify the homepage as "/" that need to be cached.

The above works fine on all browsers except on iPad which throws error. I have removed the "/" that represent home page from the cache section. It works fine now on all the browsers including iPad.

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  1. Ensure the cache.manifest file only uses relative URLs not ABSOLUTE.
  2. Ensure the cache.manifest was saved in right charset in your IDE/Text redactor
  3. Don't include page where cache.manifest is inited (page with <html manifest="cache.manifest">)