Problems with auto generated service-worker on old safari webview

[EberhardSchneider]

Environment information

Software	Version
vite	5.0.13
vite-plugin-pwa	0.17.5
Operating System	macOS Catalina
Browser	Safari 15.6.1
Service Worker	Auto-generated service-worker

Describe the bug

A GET request, which fits the NetworkOnly strategy in the workbox config fails with the following error:
FetchEvent.respondWith received an error: no-response: no-response :: [{"url":"https://.../latest.json","error":{}}]

Expected behaviour

The service worker should handle the GET request correctly.

What we tried to solve this

• Changing the regex in the vite-config to match the entire URL for this strategy.
• Modifying the configuration of the request.
• Using browserslistrc, as suggested in this post: https://dev.to/meduzen/when-vite-ignores-your-browserslist-configuration-3hoe
• set babelPresetEnvTargets, and set mode to development in the workbox part of the vite.config.js

As the service worker just uses workbox.registerRoute to handle the route, I suspect, that the error roots somewhat deeper.

Writing the service worker manually resolves the issue, but we would prefer to use the standard libraries.

Configuration

 VitePWA({
                manifest: {
                    ...
                },
                strategies: 'generateSW',
                registerType: 'autoUpdate',
                injectRegister: 'script',
                workbox: {
                    globPatterns: ['**/*.{js,tsx,json,css,html,ico,png,svg,eot,woff,woff2,ttf}'],
                    skipWaiting: true,
                    clientsClaim: true,
                    cleanupOutdatedCaches: true,
                    runtimeCaching: [
                    ...
                        {
                            urlPattern: /https:\/\/complete_url\/latest\.json/,
                            handler: 'NetworkOnly',
                        },

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