HTML5 offline “Application Cache Error event: Manifest fetch failed (-1)”

Question

I\'m trying to write an HTML5 offline application but can\'t seem to get Chrome to accept the cache manifest file.

Chrome logs the following output to its console wh

Answer 1

I have now resolved this issue by switching to CherryPy for serving these files :)

If anyone else becomes similarly stuck but wants to keep the server part simple, the following Python may be sufficient for getting started:

import cherrypy


class SimpleStaticServer:

    @cherrypy.expose
    def index(self):
        return 'Go to the static index page'


cherrypy.config.update({
        # global
        'server.socket_host': '192.168.0.3',
        'server.socket_port': 80,

        # /static
        'tools.staticdir.on': True,
        'tools.staticdir.dir': "(directory where static files are stored)",
    })
cherrypy.quickstart(SimpleStaticServer())

If you want to visit the "site" from another device, you'll need to use the external IP address (for me this was 192.168.0.3). Otherwise, you can just use '127.0.0.1' for the 'server.socket_host' value. I then point my browser to http://192.168.0.3/index.html to get my static index page.