Google Search Console error for sdk_files

  • Resolved Jim

    (@kernix)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    I’m getting a 404 error for a file that Google should not even be indexing. I removed your plugin but for some reason wp-content/plugins/onesignal-free-web-push-notifications/sdk_files/ has been indexed.

    How do I remove that from the database?

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  • Hello

    The implementation of Web Push notifications in browsers causes subscribed browsers to occasionally attempt to download this Service Worker file, resulting in a 404 if you removed it.

    This is a technical artifact of how browsers have implemented notifications, and unfortunately not something that we can change. You can safely ignore this since there’s no security risk or other harm from this. 

    Requests to this file will decrease and eventually go away over time.

    You can resolve the warnings by putting a placeholder file in place of that one (it can be blank).

    Or if you wish to have requests to this file stop sooner, there’s a guide here on how to create a ServiceWorker file that self-removes itself: https://github.com/NekR/self-destroying-sw.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter Jim

    (@kernix)

    I just looked in wp-content/plugins and there is no on-signal folder or file. So does that mean that onesignal-free-web-push-notifications/sdk_files/is in the database? If so, any idea how I would find it and delete it?

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