“Add to Home Screen” no longer works properly because PWA metadata (ex. /apple-icon.png) fails to resolve correctly

[huw]

I recently deleted my Codespace from my iPad Home Screen, and I wanted to re-add it. Unfortunately, when I re-added it it no longer launched in full screen mode and was lacking a proper home screen icon (which, in turn, means I couldn’t use keyboard shortcuts or trackpad scrolling).

I checked the Web Inspector and noticed that /apple-icon.png and /manifest.json, among others, no longer resolve correctly. Instead, they show the ordinary Codespace loading screen (which, once it loads, does not load these files either). I’m pretty sure these should resolve to the correct files again.

[jungaretti]

If you don't mind sharing, which continent are you using Codespaces from? We suspect this may be a bug in our latest update for the web and will take a look.

[Magssch]

I’m also having this problem. I’m unfortunately not able to share my console log (as I’m only travelling with an iPad), but I’m currently located in Western Europe. I tried the fix proposed above (adding the pwa my vpn on my iPad with a vpn targeted at us east) but that workaround is not working for me unfortunately. If it’s any use I’m using the URL https://magssch-tdt4100-exam-2022-jgppgwx62599v.github.dev/ (please note it’s a private repo). Changing the codespaces server location does not seem to work either (as noted above)

[huw]

@jungaretti No dice—/apple-icon.png and /manifest.json still broken. Using https://huw-wrangler2-559wwx4hvq6x.github.dev/.

[jungaretti]

Thanks for the followup. We are looking into this!

[jungaretti]

@huw We've deployed a fix for this bug. Could you try again and let me know how it goes?

[huw]

Fixed! Thank you so much ❤️