fix(hub): make the streamed download path reliable, and clean up after an abort

On Firefox and Safari the service worker is the only unbounded way to write a
download to disk: neither has the File System Access API, and OPFS is not a
substitute — measured on Firefox 154, its quota is exactly 10% of the volume's
size (389,233,459 bytes of a 3,892,334,592-byte volume, refused to the byte),
which a film exceeds. So when this path declines, a large download has nowhere
left to go, which makes its reliability a correctness property.

Four ways it declined, all of them avoidable:

- it was registered inside the first click on Download, so that click paid
  install, activate and claim while somebody watched a button do nothing;
- `_swReady` cached a null for the life of the page. One slow first click left
  the tab unable to stream anything again, curable only by a reload nobody knew
  to do. Only a successful controller is remembered now;
- control was waited for with a 3 s cap. It is 15 s, and a page that is active
  but not controlled asks the worker to claim again (`mbdl-claim`) instead of
  declaring the path unavailable;
- a missed navigation gave up at once. It gets a second attempt with a fresh id
  and iframe, the failed one torn down completely first.

Also closes a MessagePort leaked per download, and gives the reason a name
(`lastStreamFailure`) so a refusal can say what happened. The timeouts became
parameters: the defaults are the production values, no caller passes any, and
the tests do not spend a minute waiting.

`openTarget` gets an unrelated but adjacent fix, in the same file: it creates
the destination with `getFileHandle({create: true})`, so an empty file exists
before the first byte, and `abort()` leaves the target untouched — every
cancelled download left a 0-byte file behind, and since `freeName` avoids
collisions, three cancels left film.mkv, film (2).mkv and film (3).mkv, all
empty. Its `abort()` now removes the entry. Safe here and only here, because
`freeName` guarantees the name was not taken: the `showSaveFilePicker` path
must not do the same, where the person may have picked an existing file whose
contents `abort()` correctly preserves. Verified by hand in Chrome.

test_streamed_download_reliability.py runs the real module under Node against a
stubbed browser — it fails if the null is cached again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST

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+"""
+The service-worker download path, which on Firefox and Safari is the only
+unbounded way to write a file to disk.
+
+Neither of those browsers has the File System Access API, and OPFS is not a
+substitute: measured on Firefox 154, its quota is exactly 10% of the volume's
+size (389,233,459 bytes on a 3,892,334,592-byte volume, refused to the byte),
+which a film exceeds. So when this path declines, a large download has nowhere
+left to go — there is no floor under it that can hold a film. That is what makes
+its reliability a correctness property rather than a nicety.
+
+The real module is imported under Node with the browser pieces it reaches
+stubbed — `navigator.serviceWorker`, a document that "navigates" an iframe, and
+Node's own TransformStream and MessageChannel, which are the real ones. What is
+modelled is the environment; `serviceWorker()` and `openStreamedDownload()` are
+executed, never reimplemented.
+
+Three failures are pinned, all of which shipped:
+
+  - registration happened inside the first click, so that click paid install,
+    activate and claim while somebody watched a button do nothing;
+  - a null result was cached for the life of the page, so one slow first click
+    left the tab unable to stream anything again, curable only by a reload
+    nobody knew to do;
+  - one missed navigation fell straight through instead of retrying.
+"""
+
+import json
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+STATIC = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "src" / "meshbay_hub" / "static"
+DOWNLOADS = STATIC / "downloads.js"
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    shutil.which("node") is None or not DOWNLOADS.exists(),
+    reason="node or the SPA sources are not available")
+
+# The stub browser. `plan` decides how the fake worker behaves, so one harness
+# covers every case below.
+PRELUDE = """
+const store = new Map();
+globalThis.localStorage = {
+  getItem: k => (store.has(k) ? store.get(k) : null),
+  setItem: (k, v) => store.set(k, String(v)),
+  removeItem: k => store.delete(k),
+};
+const PLAN = %(plan)s;
+const log = { registers: 0, claims: 0, navigations: 0, served: 0 };
+
+// The worker as the page sees it: something with postMessage. It answers a
+// navigation by posting mbdl-serving back on the port it was handed, which is
+// exactly the confirmation the real sw.js sends from its fetch handler.
+let controller = null;
+const pendingByFrame = new Map();
+const makeController = () => ({
+  postMessage: (msg, transfer) => {
+    if (msg.type === 'mbdl-claim') { log.claims += 1; return; }
+    if (msg.type !== 'mbdl') return;
+    pendingByFrame.set('/_mbdl/' + msg.id, msg.port);
+  },
+});
+
+const listeners = new Set();
+// `globalThis.navigator` is read-only from Node 22 -- assigning to it is the
+// mistake CLAUDE.md already records against test_locales.py. Define it.
+Object.defineProperty(globalThis, 'navigator', {
+  configurable: true,
+  value: {
+    serviceWorker: {
+      get controller() { return controller; },
+      register: async () => {
+        log.registers += 1;
+        if (PLAN.registerThrows) throw new Error('registration blocked');
+        if (PLAN.controlAfterMs !== null) {
+          setTimeout(() => {
+            controller = makeController();
+            for (const fn of listeners) fn();
+          }, PLAN.controlAfterMs);
+        }
+        return {active: PLAN.active ? makeController() : null};
+      },
+      ready: Promise.resolve({}),
+      addEventListener: (type, fn) => { if (type === 'controllerchange') listeners.add(fn); },
+      removeEventListener: (type, fn) => { listeners.delete(fn); },
+    },
+  },
+});
+
+globalThis.window = globalThis;
+globalThis.isSecureContext = true;
+globalThis.document = {
+  createElement: () => ({ hidden: false, src: '', remove() {} }),
+  body: {
+    appendChild: (frame) => {
+      log.navigations += 1;
+      const port = pendingByFrame.get(frame.src);
+      const answer = PLAN.serveOnNavigation === 'always'
+        || (PLAN.serveOnNavigation === 'second' && log.navigations >= 2);
+      if (port && answer) {
+        log.served += 1;
+        setTimeout(() => {
+          port.postMessage({type: 'mbdl-serving', id: frame.src});
+          // The worker's own copy of the port, dropped once answered. sw.js
+          // drops it with the pending entry; here it has to be explicit or the
+          // harness process never exits.
+          port.close();
+        }, 0);
+      }
+    },
+  },
+};
+
+const M = await import('%(module)s');
+// Production waits 15 s for each; these cases are about which branch runs.
+const FAST = {controlMs: %(control)d, servedMs: 400};
+const out = {};
+"""
+
+
+def _run(tmp_path, body, *, control_after_ms=0, active=True,
+         serve="always", register_throws=False, control_budget_ms=800):
+    module = tmp_path / "downloads.mjs"
+    module.write_text(DOWNLOADS.read_text())
+    (tmp_path / "package.json").write_text('{"type":"module"}')
+    plan = {
+        "controlAfterMs": control_after_ms,
+        "active": active,
+        "serveOnNavigation": serve,
+        "registerThrows": register_throws,
+    }
+    script = tmp_path / "case.mjs"
+    script.write_text(
+        (PRELUDE % {"plan": json.dumps(plan), "module": module.as_posix(),
+                    "control": control_budget_ms})
+        + body
+        + "\nout.log = log;\nconsole.log(JSON.stringify(out));\n")
+    proc = subprocess.run(["node", str(script)], capture_output=True, text=True,
+                          timeout=120)
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    return json.loads(proc.stdout)
+
+
+# ── A failure must never be cached ──────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def test_a_missed_claim_does_not_poison_the_page(tmp_path):
+    """
+    The bug: `_swReady` held the null, so every later download in that tab got
+    it back without trying. One slow first click and the tab could not stream
+    again — on Firefox, that is every large download for the rest of the visit.
+
+    Here the worker never takes control, so the first call fails; the second
+    must register again rather than return a remembered null.
+    """
+    r = _run(tmp_path, """
+      out.first = await M.openStreamedDownload('a.bin', 10, FAST) !== null;
+      const after = log.registers;
+      out.second = await M.openStreamedDownload('b.bin', 10, FAST) !== null;
+      out.registeredAgain = log.registers > after;
+    """, control_after_ms=None)
+    assert r["first"] is False and r["second"] is False
+    assert r["registeredAgain"] is True, "a failed attempt was cached"
+
+
+def test_a_success_is_reused_rather_than_re_registered(tmp_path):
+    """The other half: once controlled, it must not re-register per download."""
+    r = _run(tmp_path, """
+      out.a = await M.openStreamedDownload('a.bin', 10, FAST) !== null;
+      out.b = await M.openStreamedDownload('b.bin', 10, FAST) !== null;
+    """)
+    assert r["a"] and r["b"]
+    assert r["log"]["registers"] <= 1, "re-registered on a page already controlled"
+
+
+# ── Waiting for control, rather than giving up ──────────────────────────────
+
+def test_control_arriving_late_is_still_used(tmp_path):
+    """
+    Control used to be waited for with a 3 s cap, inside the click. A cold
+    worker on a busy machine can take longer, and the old code called that a
+    browser that cannot stream. Scaled down here — the budget is a parameter, so
+    what is pinned is that a claim arriving after the first check is still used,
+    not the particular number of seconds.
+    """
+    r = _run(tmp_path, """
+      const t0 = Date.now();
+      out.ok = await M.openStreamedDownload('film.mkv', 20e9, FAST) !== null;
+      out.waitedMs = Date.now() - t0;
+    """, control_after_ms=1200, control_budget_ms=6000)
+    assert r["ok"] is True, "gave up on a claim that arrived late"
+    assert r["waitedMs"] >= 1100, "did not actually wait for the claim"
+
+
+def test_an_uncontrolled_page_asks_the_worker_to_claim_again(tmp_path):
+    """
+    Active but not controlling — a page loaded before any worker existed, whose
+    claim was missed. Rather than declare the path unavailable, ask again.
+    """
+    r = _run(tmp_path, """
+      out.ok = await M.openStreamedDownload('a.bin', 10, FAST) !== null;
+    """, control_after_ms=None, active=True)
+    assert r["log"]["claims"] >= 1, "never asked the active worker to claim"
+
+
+# ── Retrying a missed navigation ────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def test_a_missed_navigation_is_retried(tmp_path):
+    """
+    The worker takes the stream and is then never asked for the URL. The page
+    used to give up at once; on Firefox that sends a film to the in-memory
+    floor. It gets a second go, with a fresh id and a fresh iframe.
+    """
+    r = _run(tmp_path, """
+      out.ok = await M.openStreamedDownload('film.mkv', 20e9, FAST) !== null;
+    """, serve="second")
+    assert r["ok"] is True, "one missed navigation ended the download"
+    assert r["log"]["navigations"] == 2
+
+
+def test_giving_up_says_why(tmp_path):
+    """
+    A silent null is what made the original defect invisible. Whatever happens,
+    the reason has to be readable afterwards — it is what the refusal quotes.
+    """
+    r = _run(tmp_path, """
+      out.target = await M.openStreamedDownload('a.bin', 10, FAST);
+      out.why = M.lastStreamFailure();
+    """, control_after_ms=None)
+    assert r["target"] is None
+    assert r["why"], "declined with no stated reason"
+
+
+def test_a_registration_that_throws_is_reported_not_swallowed(tmp_path):
+    r = _run(tmp_path, """
+      out.target = await M.openStreamedDownload('a.bin', 10, FAST);
+      out.why = M.lastStreamFailure();
+    """, register_throws=True)
+    assert r["target"] is None
+    assert "registration" in r["why"]
+
+
+# ── Wiring that the behavioural cases cannot see ────────────────────────────
+
+def test_the_worker_is_primed_at_boot_not_at_the_first_click(tmp_path):
+    """
+    Registration inside the first download is the whole reason the claim was
+    ever raced. `primeServiceWorker` has to be called where the app starts, and
+    from a module that actually imports it — `node --check` would not notice a
+    missing import, which is a mistake this repo has already shipped once.
+    """
+    app = (STATIC / "app.js").read_text()
+    assert "downloads.primeServiceWorker()" in app, "nothing primes the worker"
+    assert "import * as downloads from './downloads.js'" in app, (
+        "app.js calls downloads.primeServiceWorker() without importing downloads")
+    # In mount(), which runs at start-up — not inside a component or a handler.
+    mount = app[app.index("const mount = () => {"):]
+    assert "downloads.primeServiceWorker()" in mount[:mount.index("\n};")]
+
+
+def test_the_worker_answers_a_re_claim(tmp_path):
+    """The page's last resort before declaring the path unavailable only works
+    if sw.js implements the other half."""
+    sw = (STATIC / "sw.js").read_text()
+    assert "mbdl-claim" in sw and "clients.claim()" in sw