Read data from the appcache

Question

I have a HTML5 application that works offline. As part of the solution I would like to use the appcache version as the product version. Is there anyway to read the comments (or any section) from the appcache file, in Javascript?

Answer 1

I managed to achieve this by doing an AJAX GET on the file. If the app is offline, the GET is handled by the browser and it serves up the cached copy.