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.
