The Angular ServiceWorker always uses a copy of the request without
headers for caching assets (in order to avoid issues with opaque
responses). Therefore, it was previously not possible to retrieve
resources from the cache if the response contained [Vary](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Vary) headers.
In addition to that, `Vary` headers do not work in all browsers (or work
differently) and may not work as intended with ServiceWorker caches. See
[this article](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/11/understanding-vary-header) and the linked resources for more info.
This commit avoids the aforementioned issues by making sure the Angular
ServiceWorker always sets the `ignoreVary` option passed to
[Cache#match()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache/match) to `true`. This allows the ServiceWorker to correctly
retrieve cached responses with `Vary` headers, which was previously not
possible.
Fixes#36638
BREAKING CHANGE:
Previously, [Vary](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Vary)
headers would be taken into account when retrieving resources from the
cache, completely preventing the retrieval of cached assets (due to
ServiceWorker implementation details) and leading to unpredictable
behavior due to inconsistent/buggy implementations in different
browsers.
Now, `Vary` headers are ignored when retrieving resources from the
ServiceWorker caches, which can result in resources being retrieved even
when their headers are different. If your application needs to
differentiate its responses based on request headers, please make sure
the Angular ServiceWorker is [configured](https://angular.io/guide/service-worker-config)
to avoid caching the affected resources.
PR Close#34663
The tests will not be run anyway, so the artifacts are never used and
there might be errors if creating the testing artifacts relies on APIs
that are not available in that environment (e.g. `URL`).
PR Close#27080
This commit fixes several issues discovered through use in real apps.
* The sha1() function operated on text content, causing issues for binary-format files.
A sha1Binary() function which operates on unparsed data now avoids any encoding issues.
* The characters '?' and '+' were not escaped in Glob-to-regex conversion previously, but
are now.
* URLs from the browser contain the full origin, but were checked against the table of
hashes from the manifest which only has the path for URLs from the same origin. Now the
origin is checked and URLs are relativized to the domain root before comparison if
appropriate.
* ngsw: prefix was missing from data groups, is now added.
* Occasionally servers will return a redirected response for an asset, and caching it could
cause errors for navigation requests. The SW now handles this by detecting such responses
and following the redirect manually, to avoid caching a redirected response.
* The request for known assets is now created from scratch from the URL before fetching from
the network, in order to sanitize it and avoid carrying any special modes or headers that
might result in opaque responses.
* Debugging log for troubleshooting.
* Avoid creating errors by returning 504 responses on error.
* Fix bug where idle queue doesn't run in some circumstances.
* Add tests for the above.
This service worker is a conceptual derivative of the existing @angular/service-worker maintained at github.com/angular/mobile-toolkit, but has been rewritten to support use across a much wider variety of applications.
Entrypoints include:
@angular/service-worker: a library for use within Angular client apps to communicate with the service worker.
@angular/service-worker/gen: a library for generating ngsw.json files from glob-based SW config files.
@angular/service-worker/ngsw-worker.js: the bundled service worker script itself.
@angular/service-worker/ngsw-cli.js: a CLI tool for generating ngsw.json files from glob-based SW config files.
Joey Perrott
Maximilian Koeller
George Kalpakas
Misko Hevery
Alex Rickabaugh