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fix(web): no-store on the GUI shell HTML (no stale cache after update) #204

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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions src/web/server.ts
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Expand Up @@ -674,7 +674,10 @@ export async function startWebServer(opts: WebServerOptions): Promise<http.Serve
};

if (req.method === "GET" && (url === "/" || url.startsWith("/?"))) {
res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "text/html; charset=utf-8" });
// no-store: never cache the shell, or a WKWebView / browser keeps rendering
// an old GUI after `lisa` is updated (the shell carries the current markup +
// asset references). Fixes the "removed element still shows" stale-cache bug.
res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "text/html; charset=utf-8", "cache-control": "no-store" });
res.end(MAIN_HTML);
return;
}
Expand All @@ -690,7 +693,7 @@ export async function startWebServer(opts: WebServerOptions): Promise<http.Serve
// Island widget — designed to be opened in a tiny browser window
// (Arc, Vivaldi PWA, Safari split). See docs/MAC_ISLAND_PLAN.md.
if (req.method === "GET" && (url === "/island" || url.startsWith("/island?"))) {
res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "text/html; charset=utf-8" });
res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "text/html; charset=utf-8", "cache-control": "no-store" });
res.end(ISLAND_HTML);
return;
}
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