Don't cache current (index) page with cache manifest

Question

By default, when a cache manifest is used the browser will also cache the current (HTML) page. How do I not do that?

My site looks like domain.com/ in the address bar but it is actually serving domain.com/index.php. I have tried:

NETWORK
/
*

and

NETWORK
/index.php
*

...and variants like index.html, index.php without the leading slash, etc. (The manifest is working fine otherwise -- it's properly caching some files listed under the CACHE: heading, it's being served with the correct MIME type, etc.)

Answer 1

Don't put the manifest reference in your index.php. Put it in a page you do want cached, or that you don't mind having cached, and load that page in an iframe on your index.php page.