problem deploying edu.gcfglobal.org_en_all_2020-12 about zimit HOT 5 CLOSED

A Big Thank You to @tim-moody and @kelson42 and @shanti-bhardwa and @ericnitschke and everyone working on this!

Related: openzim/zim-requests#225

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To quote from https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/primers/service-workers:

You need HTTPS
During development you'll be able to use service worker through localhost, but to deploy it on a site you'll need to have HTTPS setup on your server.

Using service worker you can hijack connections, fabricate, and filter responses. Powerful stuff. While you would use these powers for good, a man-in-the-middle might not. To avoid this, you can only register service workers on pages served over HTTPS, so we know the service worker the browser receives hasn't been tampered with during its journey through the network.

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@tim-moody This has to run in HTTPS. This kind of ZIM file uses service workers. Browser implementation of service workers requires HTTPS on remote hosts. There is nothing we can do about that. Works as designed.

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@kelson42 can we assume then that it was not designed for offline use?

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@tim-moody You can assume it, we don't.

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