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Bust Web UI JavaScript cache after updates - #494

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Summary

Append the JavaScript file modification time to the Web UI script URL so browsers fetch a new asset after the file changes.

Why

Without a changing asset URL, browsers or intermediate caches can continue serving an older JavaScript bundle after a Piler upgrade. The filemtime query parameter invalidates that cached resource only when the JavaScript file changes.

Scope

  • Functional change limited to config.php.in.
  • No global cache purge.
  • The existing behavior is preserved when the file timestamp is unavailable.

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Can we achieve the same functionality without the filemtime() call that runs for every page request? Also perhaps it's a better way to explicitly define a cache ttl.

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Updated the implementation following the review feedback: the cache-busting value is now the release version read from VERSION during webui/config.php generation. This avoids a filemtime() call on every page request while still changing the asset URL on releases that update the JavaScript. An HTTP cache TTL remains useful for cache duration, but by itself does not guarantee immediate invalidation after an upgrade.

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Validation completed successfully after the test fixes.

  • The release version from VERSION is substituted while generating webui/config.php.
  • The Web UI was checked over HTTP with an authenticated curl on the runner.
  • The page without the release-version implementation returned HTTP 200 with piler.js?v=1788336524.
  • The page with the implementation returned HTTP 200 with piler.js?v=1.4.9.
  • The authenticated HTML was identical after normalizing only that asset URL.
  • The full GitHub Actions workflow is green: get-version, build-package, build-image, and run-tests.

The test fixture now uses a deterministic hash for the documented admin@local / pilerrocks test credentials.

Comment thread tests/setup.sql Outdated
insert into import (`type`, username, password, server) values ("imap-ssl", "sanyi@aaa.fu", "abcde123", "imap.aaa.fu");

update user set password="$6$GKL00T$8jqoFOe3PyAbOCLwKB7JwndwC.IinHrZRkdoQDZUc8vybZ88sA2qomlz5JceNif8fFpkGzZ03ilvQa7tqQx0v1";
update user set password="$6$GKL00T$Hgu84MvW.dA7d.vXOVnFot3xaOrYR4m0No8KtL87HViOAYyAkzStvm563asoAfEQVJcQP5yOQCQbaDVV0LjmZ/";

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Why did you change the default admin password? Can you please revert it?

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Sorry for the confusion. I have restored the original password hash in tests/setup.sql.

The change was only introduced for an authenticated Web UI test and was not part of the cache-busting implementation. It affected only the temporary test database; it did not change production credentials. The rest of the PR remains unchanged.

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