How to make it work as PWA?

[erostefano]

Hi everyone

Architecture

• Installed using the recommended docker-compose.yml.
• Running behind the Caddy proxy with basic authentication.

Issue

• The browser isn't offering it as a PWA.
• The manifest.json file cannot be loaded.

When I inspect the network requests, I see that everything loads successfully—except for static/51256c63ef/manifest.json, which returns a 401 Unauthorized error. There’s no additional filtering in the reverse proxy.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

[svilenmarkov]

Hey, are you serving Glance behind HTTPS? Also, is it hosted under a directory or does it have its own subdomain?

[erostefano]

Yes, Caddy is using https and it has its own subdomain.

I realized that the browser adds to every other request the basic auth - except to the manifest.json. Following ChatGPT it is by design how PWA are expected to work.

The fix is to ignore basic auth for the manifest.json file.