Removing HTML5 Appcache Manifest, Permanently

Question

I setup an Application Cache on a site and shortly thereafter realized its way more aggressive that I realized. I want to remove it. Permanently.

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Answer 1

As of 6/25/2015 I found returning a 404 will not clear the existing appcache for Firefox, and returning a blank appcache will not clear the existing appcache for Chrome. Returning the following appcache seemed to work in IE,Chrome,Safari, and Firefox, although it is unclear by what mechanism the disabling of 'implicit' caching of index.html is accomplished.

NETWORK:
*

CACHE:
FALLBACK: