We have a collection of mirrored web sites that we distribute to schools in developing countries where Internet access is limited or not available. I'm looking into different proxies that provide off-line browsing support to see if they can be used to let students type in a URI and if it's in the collection it will be served as if they were on the Internet.
I would like to know how Apache responds while in offline mode to a request for http://www.foo.com/ with no default page specified versus a request where the default page is included in the request as in http://www.foo.com/index.html. It would make sense to me that the second request would work if the resource was in the cache already. But say I use an address without specifying a file. Does Apache keep track of what files in it's cache are the default document for some address?
I understand that normally the web server is configured to serve certain pages as a default document or directory index page. When such a page does not exist in the requested directory path the server will respond with a directory listing or a directory listing denied. It seems to me that it would not be possible to define ahead of time what documents are to be served as default, if they exist, in an offline cache and that some other technique would need to be used.
Thanks,
Anthony
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