Every cache of answers from an outside service has its own file in `SWW_CACHE_DIR` (default `/var/cache/sww`): `lookups.json` (GeoJS), `lists.json` (lists fetched by URL, CrowdSec's decisions included), `dnsbl.json`, `abuseipdb-scores.json` and `routewatch.json` (at most 100,000 answers, each kept an hour). `reputation.json` is gone; the AbuseIPDB checks spent today stay in `SWW_STATE_DIR` as `abuseipdb-checks-spent.json`, since losing them would spend the daily budget twice.
A cache file never stops the start: one that does not parse is set aside as `<name>.bad` with a `file_error` alert. An unwritable `SWW_CACHE_DIR` stops the start. The `run` script creates the cache directory and gives it to `sww`. The cache directory needs no volume and can be left out of backups.
Model: opus-5-5
With `SWW_ROUTEWATCH_URL` set, a new heuristic, `routewatch_tags`, adds `asn=<number>` and `prefix=<netblock>` to a request from what a routewatch instance answers about the client. New package `internal/routewatch` asks in the background, never on a request's path, and keeps answers 1 hour in memory. The request log gains `routewatch_tags_missing`, saying why a request has none. `prefix=` works in `SWW_TAG_DENY` and `SWW_TAG_LIMIT_PERCENT`.
Trips a reader: a client's first request has no routewatch tags, so `prefix=` refuses from its next request after the answer comes.
Judgement call: with `SWW_LOOKUP_SOURCE=off` and `SWW_ROUTEWATCH_URL` set, an `asn=` tag no longer stops the start.
Model: opus-5-5
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