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Fixes #503.

static_handler fell through to index.html for every unmatched path, so /favicon.ico, /robots.txt and /assets/anything.js all returned 200 with the SPA shell. A CDN that keys cacheability off the file extension then caches the shell and serves it to anyone, including past an auth proxy in front of the UI.

Two changes:

  1. A missing asset now 404s instead of falling through. "Asset" means anything under the embedded assets/ directory, or a dotted filename at the root.
  2. The shell and the placeholder now send Cache-Control: no-store.

The asset check deliberately does not treat any dotted path segment as a file. /queues/$name is a real client-side route and a queue named orders.v2 or com.example.emails must still reach the SPA, so only root-level dotted paths and the assets/ prefix count. Unit tests cover both directions.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Requests for missing assets and dotted filenames at the site root now return a 404 instead of the app shell or a placeholder.
    • Client-side routes, including nested paths with dots in route parameters, continue to load through the app.
    • The app shell and placeholder responses are now sent with caching disabled.

static_handler fell through to index.html for every unmatched path, so
/favicon.ico, /robots.txt and /assets/anything.js each returned 200 with
the SPA shell. A CDN that keys cacheability off the file extension then
caches that shell and serves it to anyone, including past an auth proxy
sitting in front of the UI.

A missing asset now returns 404, and the shell and placeholder send
Cache-Control: no-store.

The asset check does not treat every dotted path segment as a file.
/queues/$name is a real client-side route, so a queue named orders.v2 or
com.example.emails must still reach the SPA; only the assets/ prefix and
root-level dotted paths count.
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The static handler now returns 404 for unmatched asset-like paths, adds Cache-Control: no-store to the embedded index and placeholder responses, and continues to serve nested client-side routes through the SPA fallback.

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Static route responses

Layer / File(s) Summary
Asset classification and SPA fallback
awa-ui/src/lib.rs, CHANGELOG.md
The handler returns 404 for paths under assets/ and dotted filenames at the root. Nested paths, including dotted route parameters, retain the SPA fallback. The embedded index and placeholder responses include Cache-Control: no-store. Tests cover asset classification and client-side routes. The changelog records these changes.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: hardbyte

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ff44b

Requests for /index.html do not receive the no-store header that the root and SPA fallback routes get. The shell contains no user data, so the impact is small, and a one-line fix makes the cache policy consistent.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ff44b

Missing assets can no longer receive the UI shell, and fallback HTML now requests no caching. A direct request for the shell still lacks that protection, but this behavior predates the PR. Its effect in a deployed proxy or CDN is unknown.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — An externally supplied URL reaches this shared UI fallback. The change removes the shell response for missing asset-like URLs, but leaves direct requests for existing embedded files on the exact-file branch. No deployed CDN or proxy scope is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — A retained security finding identifies the missing no-store policy for a direct embedded-shell response. The exact-file branch and its exposure through this handler are unchanged from base; whether an intermediary caches that response across an authentication boundary is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The new 404 and no-store responses address the stated extension-keyed CDN threat for missing assets. The source describes a possible cache serving past an authentication proxy, but does not establish that proxy’s placement or cache behavior.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If no-store is intended for every shell response, apply it to direct embedded index.html responses as well, and verify the policy against the deployed CDN and authentication proxy.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main changes: unmatched asset paths return 404, and the SPA shell uses no-store caching.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #503 requires 404 for unmatched static-asset paths and Cache-Control: no-store or private for the SPA shell. In awa-ui/src/lib.rs, static_handler returns 404 Not Found for missing path…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reviewed changes are limited to static_handler, asset-path classification, related tests, and a changelog entry. These changes directly implement or document issue #503. No unrelated change is s…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 …

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- Around line 202-203: Update the exact-file response branch that serves
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return (
[(header::CACHE_CONTROL, "no-store")],

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Add Cache-Control: no-store to the exact index.html response. /index.html maps to index.html and uses the exact-file branch, which omits no-store. / maps to an empty path and uses the fallback, which already sets no-store. The embedded shell contains static bootstrap HTML; user-specific data loads through API requests after startup. This is not a sensitive-data exposure or CWE-525 issue, but the cache policy is inconsistent.

Apply the header only to the exact shell response
         if let Some(file) = StaticAssets::get(path) {
             let mime = mime_guess::from_path(path).first_or_octet_stream();
+            if path == "index.html" {
+                return (
+                    [
+                        (header::CONTENT_TYPE, mime.as_ref()),
+                        (header::CACHE_CONTROL, "no-store"),
+                    ],
+                    file.data.to_vec(),
+                )
+                    .into_response();
+            }
             return ([(header::CONTENT_TYPE, mime.as_ref())], file.data.to_vec()).into_response();

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Review comment at @awa-ui/src/lib.rs around lines 202 - 203:
Update the exact-file response branch that serves StaticAssets in the request
handler to add Cache-Control: no-store only when the requested path is
index.html. Preserve the existing content type and leave other exact-file
responses unchanged.

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Closing this for now. Apologies for the noise.

@ogcamplin ogcamplin closed this Sep 29, 2026
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