diff --git a/demo/index.html b/demo/index.html
index c309397d5f..fd06f3e594 100644
--- a/demo/index.html
+++ b/demo/index.html
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://code.getmdl.io/1.3.0/material.indigo-blue.min.css">
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons">
 
-    <script defer src="//www.gstatic.com/cv/js/sender/v1/cast_sender.js"></script>
+    <script defer src="https://www.gstatic.com/cv/js/sender/v1/cast_sender.js"></script>
     <!-- transmuxing support is enabled by including this: -->
     <script defer src="../node_modules/mux.js/dist/mux.js"></script>
     <!-- MDL is enabled by including this: -->
diff --git a/demo/service_worker.js b/demo/service_worker.js
index 7439fb22b5..ad5e1b3c51 100644
--- a/demo/service_worker.js
+++ b/demo/service_worker.js
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ const OPTIONAL_RESOURCES = [
  */
 const CACHEABLE_URL_PREFIXES = [
   // Anything associated with this application is fair game to cache.
+  // This would not be necessary if this demo were always served from the same
+  // location and always used absolute URLs in the resources lists above.
   location.origin,
 
   // Google Web Fonts should be cached when first seen, without being explicitly
@@ -187,14 +189,29 @@ function onActivate(event) {
 function onFetch(event) {
   // Make sure this is a request we should be handling in the first place.
   // If it's not, it's important to leave it alone and not call respondWith.
-  let cacheable = false;
+  let useCache = false;
   for (const prefix of CACHEABLE_URL_PREFIXES) {
     if (event.request.url.startsWith(prefix)) {
-      cacheable = true;
+      useCache = true;
+      break;
     }
   }
 
-  if (cacheable) {
+  // Now we need to check our resource lists.  The list of prefixes above won't
+  // cover everything that was installed initially, and those things still need
+  // to be read from cache.  So we check if this request URL matches one of
+  // those lists.
+  // The resource lists contain some relative URLs and some absolute URLs.  The
+  // check here will only be able to match the absolute ones, but that's enough,
+  // because the relative ones are covered by the loop above.
+  if (!useCache) {
+    if (CRITICAL_RESOURCES.includes(event.request.url) ||
+        OPTIONAL_RESOURCES.includes(event.request.url)) {
+      useCache = true;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (useCache) {
     event.respondWith(fetchCacheableResource(event.request));
   }
 }