Notes

• packages.md

• zip fragments and zip URLs

• HTML Resource Packages

• Packaged Web Apps (Widgets) - Packaging and XML Configuration (Second Edition)

• Making browsers faster: Resource Packages — Alex Limi

• Asset bundles for faster page fetching (fewer requests to the server) from jxtps435 on 2009-11-08 ([e-mail] from November 2009)

• new HTML feature: from Kuzma Deretuke on 2010-02-08 ([e-mail] from February 2010)

• [whatwg] An BinaryArchive API for HTML5? from Gregg Tavares on 2009-07-30 ([e-mail] from July 2009)

• ECMAScript 6 modules in future browsers

• [whatwg] Zip archives as first-class citizens from Anne van Kesteren on 2013-08-28 ([e-mail] from August 2013)

• Packaging on the Web

• WebAPI/ArchiveAPI - MozillaWiki

• Zip - WHATWG Wiki

• Open Archives Initiative Protocol - Object Exchange and Reuse

• Vulnerability Note VU#715737 - Mozilla-based browsers jar: URI cross-site scripting vulnerability

Use Content-Encoding: gzip, only if Accept-Encoding: gzip

HTTP/2.0

In flavor of HTTP/2 "push" mode (draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-17 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2 - 8.2. Server Push)

We ultimately decided to scrap resource packages in favor of HTTP pipelining and spdy, each of which gets you most of the speedup you'd get with packaging but doesn't require changes to web content. — 681967 – Web packaging format

• Link prefetching FAQ - HTTP | MDN

• LINK rel=subresource - The Chromium Projects

An possible use of Service Workers (replace Application Cache/Cache Manifest) with FetchEvent

Service Worker as proxy

Use regular URLs

Defining bundles location can be required:

<link rel="assetbundle" src="/assetbundle.zip" ...>
<link rel="cache" type="application/zip" href="small-files.zip">
<link rel="resource-package" type="application/zip" href="site-resources.zip">

message/http with a body that is Multipart MIME

Or multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed

http://someplace.com/somearchive.tgz!/myimage.png

For unsupported browsers load the full URL where supporte only archive

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="|||"
--|||
Content-Type: image/gif
.......(base64).....
--|||--

• MIME — Wikipedia

• Content-Type: multipart

• http - application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data? - Stack Overflow

Serialized JavaScript

• https://github.com/wavesoft/jbb

• JBB: Javascript Binary Bundles for faster resource loading

App manifest

• https://github.com/meryn/parse-appcache-manifest/blob/master/src/parse-appcache-manifest.coffee