I haven't reviewed the new draft yet just a preliminary comment for now. >> * intercept namespaces [new] >> This form of namespace is not in the spec at present. This is a proposal to >> add it. It is a heavily used feature of the Gears LocalServer. The basic >> idea is to intercept requests into this namespace and satisfy them with a >> cached 'namespace-handler' without consulting the server. >> >> 2) Hijacking parameterized requests and returning a local resource >> without incurring any network traffic. > > This isn't supported; the network is always consulted. But if the network > request fails, then a fallback resource is used, though it cannot be > generated on the fly.
Why? I had assumed this was a simple omission in the original draft. Can you explain the rationale behind not having this feature? What am i missing?