IE 11 displays the "You are not connected to the network" page when you try to access the offline App Cached page

Question

Background:

I created a web page that should work even offline. This page is created using the AppCache guidelines .

My web browser is IE11 on an HP tablet for Windows 8.

When I click the direct URL of a page on a physical server (Oracle weblogic), I can access this page. The same page is accessible through the IE11 browser even when disconnecting network connections.

Question:

When I access the same page through a corporate gateway (F5 and OHS), the page is available when there is a network connection. But as soon as I disconnect the network connection, I see the page " You are not connected to the network ."

When I connect to the network and try to access the same page, I see that the resources requested by my page are served from the local cache browser (I check the network using the IE developer tools).

Not sure what is going on. I would like to access my page even if there is no connectivity.

Note:

My pages are accessible through the gateway using only "HTTPS". Where, when my direct server access uses "HTTP"

Answer 1

It seems that IE maintains its offline content in different security zones. And these zones differ depending on your network connection or offline.

It seems that when I was connected to the network, the local intranet security zone was applied. But when I go offline, the Internet security zone was applied by IE browser.

My web page started working fine when I added the domain name of the site in IE → Internet Options → Security → Trusted Sites.

Since then, the same security zone has been applied when connected to a network or offline.