cuprate publishes only raw JSON RPC (18090 restricted, 18183 p2p), so
launches must land on the companion on :18091, never on the running
node's runtimeUrl — same root-path special-case bitcoin uses, with the
dev vite proxy for /app/cuprate-ui/. Alias cuprate -> cuprate-ui so the
port-auth lookup finds the gated launch port on HTTPS nodes; pin the
companion icon to the cuprate mark.
Three launcher/bridge defects combined to make HTTPS dashboards look
broken while HTTP ones worked:
1. portAuth() looked the launch port up under the name the user clicks
('mempool-web', 'lnd', 'bitcoin-knots'…), but the signed catalog
declares those ports under the manifest id that owns them
(archy-mempool-web, lnd-ui, bitcoin-ui). The lookup missed,
portIsGateFronted answered false, and an HTTPS dashboard handed app
frames http:// URLs — blocked as mixed content: mempool and IndeeHub
'did not connect', bitcoin knots/core opened http:// in a new tab.
Resolution now follows launch aliases, then a port-wide catalog scan
that only answers when every declarer of that port agrees (a port
any app publishes as plain HTTP is never upgraded to https).
2. The signed-catalog cache was only warmed by the Store/Discover
views, so a user who went straight to My Apps launched apps with an
empty cache. Warmed at dashboard mount now — fetchAppCatalog()
already memoizes with a 1h TTL.
3. The NIP-07 bridge compared event.origin for strict equality with the
recorded (http) app URL and replied to the recorded URL as the
postMessage targetOrigin — both break the moment a frame is scheme-
upgraded (cached HSTS did exactly that): every nostr request was
silently dropped and replies to the stale origin threw. The bridge
now matches host+port (scheme deliberately ignored) and always
replies to event.origin — the frame's real origin.
Unit tests cover alias resolution (incl. bitcoin-knots→8334→https),
the conservative port-scan, and scheme-agnostic sender matching.
Settings gains the SSH-over-mesh card (danger-zone confirmation for the
any-peer scope, sshd preflights, fipssh copy hint). The signed-catalog
merge filters components via the shared serviceNames module; Discover
grids get the standard icon container; install no longer yanks the user
to My Apps; v1.8.8 release notes.
directAppUrl(), the legacy open() path, and resolveRuntimeLaunchUrl()
now upgrade to https only for ports the app gate fronts — decided from
the signed catalog's embedded manifest ports (auth gated/open), so
plain-HTTP publishes (legacy installs, auth:none API ports like
Cuprate's RPC) keep http instead of failing outright. fetchAppCatalog()
merges the daemon-verified signed catalog into the App Store listing
(signed entries appear immediately; community copy supplies featured
and curated metadata), and Marketplace.vue uses the same dynamic fetcher
as Discover so the grid sees signed-new apps too.
Only the auto-popup was companion-gated — inside the companion WebView
users still saw the 'install the companion' banner in the App Store and
could pop the intro overlay through it. Gates all three paths on
isCompanionApp(): CompanionBanner self-hides, openCompanionIntro() is a
no-op, and the manual-open watcher in CompanionIntroOverlay refuses to
open (the overlay's raw window check also moves to the canonical helper
so there is exactly one detection). No APK change.