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jcoffey-dev 0ad19802f8 Never serve the service worker from a cache
The deploy on 2026-09-08 went out at the origin and did not arrive.
Cloudflare went on handing out the previous `sw.js` -- `cf-cache-status:
HIT`, with an edge TTL of four hours, longer than the hour we asked for
-- because the file is neither a hashed asset nor HTML and so fell into
the ordinary `max-age=3600` case.

That is not a freshness preference. The service worker is the app's whole
update mechanism: a browser holding the old one goes on being served the
shell that worker knows and never learns a deploy happened, so the deploy
simply does not land. The manifest matters for a second reason -- the two
have to agree. A fresh manifest advertising a share target, answered by a
worker that has never heard of one, sends the share to the server for a
405. Either being old is survivable; disagreeing is not.

`no-cache` rather than `no-store`: both may still keep a copy, they just
have to revalidate it, which is a 304 and costs nothing. Neither gets to
answer with its own copy without asking.

Narrow on purpose -- two files, named, rather than a policy that quietly
stops the icons and fonts being cached as well.
2026-09-07 23:02:19 -07:00
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