loader seems to fail at random, but frequently when serving from localhost

[wiltzius]

With a recent Polymer checkout of the stable branch, I ran a local webserver with the following:

$ cd /path/to/polymer-all/..
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

then try to run examples like:

localhost:8000/polymer-all/polymer-ui-elements/polmer-ui-menu/

in Chrome Canary (30.0.1574.0 Mac).

This works great if I'm online. If I disable WiFi, suddenly I get frequent (but different) errors where loader.js fails to GET various resources (and then nothing works right). Example:

GET http://localhost:8000/polymer-all/PointerEvents/src/touch-action.js

In the Network tab of Dev Tools it just says "failed" as the status.

This is super confusing. Shouldn't it all work locally, without net access?

I realize this sounds like a web server bug, but the Python server is very well tested and I've never seen it behave this way before.

[sjmiles]

I agree this is confusing, but that network access is not anything Polymer can affect.

Your issue is either server, browser, or OS related.

[dfreedm]

This is a very old bug that is probably not reproducible anymore. Please re-open if this is still an issue.