diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md
index b5c79fb21..15ad0bc16 100644
--- a/SECURITY.md
+++ b/SECURITY.md
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ The data proxies under `server/providers/` are written so the browser cannot tur
 - **Cross-site gate on cost/log endpoints.** The cost-bearing (`/api/realtime/token`, `/api/openai/hud-summary`, `/api/google/nearby-places`, `/api/google/text-search`), quota-bearing (`/api/mapillary/*`, with a per-IP limit on tiles) and log (`/api/realtime/debug-log`) endpoints refuse cross-site browser requests: a foreign or opaque `Origin`, a `Sec-Fetch-Site` other than `same-origin`/`none` (this is what blocks an `<img>`/navigation that carries no `Origin`), or any reverse-proxy/CDN forwarding header returns `403`. Non-browser loopback tools (the repo QA harnesses POST the token endpoint with no `Origin`) and the explicit `HOST=0.0.0.0` LAN opt-in keep working — the gate deliberately does not require a loopback remote address; that stricter requirement belongs only to the credential panel (`admitKeySetupRequest`). The Host check (`allowedHosts`, applied by `hostCheckPlugin` ahead of every route, since Vite's own check runs only after plugin middleware) rejects a rebinding `Host` before any handler runs, in every mode, and the gate is defense in depth behind it: the LAN opt-in keeps that check and accepts only IP addresses, `localhost` and names listed in `GEV_ALLOWED_HOSTS`. **Limit:** a name you list there is trusted like the app's own address, so list only names you control.
 - **Full Content-Security-Policy.** The dev and preview servers send a real CSP (`script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' blob:` plus the YouTube, Facebook and X scripts the Nepal event's embedded media loads and the Maps JavaScript API that Street View runs on, with a matching `frame-src` for their players and posts: no inline script and no other script origin; `blob:` covers the object URLs Cesium's bundled workers bootstrap through in the built app), alongside the existing `X-Frame-Options: DENY` and `frame-ancestors 'none'`. `'unsafe-eval'` stays because Knockout, bundled inside Cesium's widgets package, resolves the global object with `eval` at load time and the globe does not initialize without it; styles permit `'unsafe-inline'` and Google Fonts because Vite's dev client injects `<style>` elements.
 
+Allowing `maps.googleapis.com` in `script-src` also trusts its JSONP endpoints, which can bypass the script allowlist if an HTML-injection bug exists; this is an accepted limitation of loading the Maps JavaScript API, alongside the existing `'unsafe-eval'` allowance.
+
 ## Network exposure — the operator threat model
 
 The dev server is a **key broker**: every server-side key above is spendable by anyone who can send HTTP requests to it. That shapes the defaults:
diff --git a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
index 66ad33e52..62dfc056b 100644
--- a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
+++ b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
@@ -3108,7 +3108,8 @@ disabled until the camera is at street zoom. The viewer is Google's `StreetViewP
 element in the viewer host, without Google's fullscreen, close and address
 controls (the address goes in the caption); a pose goes out at once and
 again when the panorama's month, photographer and address arrive (one
-lookup per panorama per session, seeded by the nearest lookup). A key
+successful lookup per panorama per session, seeded by the nearest lookup;
+failed details lookups wait five seconds before a view event can retry). A key
 Google refuses (`gm_authFailure`: the API not enabled, a referrer it does
 not allow, billing off) reads KEY REJECTED and fails a pending open at
 once; a lookup or open Google never answers fails after 10 or 20 s. In CI
diff --git a/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/policy.js b/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/policy.js
index 7493dd5f6..8d76d4bfa 100644
--- a/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/policy.js
+++ b/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/policy.js
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ export const KEY_REJECTED_MESSAGE =
 export const NEAREST_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000;
 /** A panorama that has not shown by then has failed to open. */
 export const OPEN_TIMEOUT_MS = 20_000;
+/** Minimum pause after a failed panorama-details lookup before a view can retry. */
+export const DETAILS_RETRY_COOLDOWN_MS = 5_000;
 
 /** Google answered nothing: the network, or a key Google ignores. */
 export const NO_ANSWER_MESSAGE =
diff --git a/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/viewer.js b/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/viewer.js
index 34a60126e..27fd8cb1e 100644
--- a/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/viewer.js
+++ b/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/viewer.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import {
+  DETAILS_RETRY_COOLDOWN_MS,
   GOOGLE_PROVIDER_ID,
   KEY_REJECTED_MESSAGE,
   NO_ANSWER_MESSAGE,
@@ -50,6 +51,8 @@ export function createGoogleViewer({ loader, getService, render } = {}) {
   const described = new Map();
   /** Panorama ids whose lookup is in flight. */
   const lookingUp = new Set();
+  /** Panorama id → earliest retry time after a failed details lookup. */
+  const retryAfter = new Map();
   const listeners = new Set();
 
   function requestRender() {
@@ -81,11 +84,12 @@ export function createGoogleViewer({ loader, getService, render } = {}) {
 
   /**
    * Look up a panorama's date, photographer and address once; the pose
-   * already out is sent again with them. A failed lookup is asked again on
-   * the next event.
+   * already out is sent again with them. After a failure, view events can
+   * retry once the cooldown expires.
    */
   async function describe(panoId) {
     if (described.has(panoId) || lookingUp.has(panoId)) return;
+    if (Date.now() < (retryAfter.get(panoId) ?? 0)) return;
     lookingUp.add(panoId);
     try {
       service ||= getService
@@ -93,7 +97,9 @@ export function createGoogleViewer({ loader, getService, render } = {}) {
         : new (await ensureLibrary()).StreetViewService();
       const { data } = await service.getPanorama({ pano: panoId });
       described.set(panoId, metaFrom(data));
+      retryAfter.delete(panoId);
     } catch {
+      retryAfter.set(panoId, Date.now() + DETAILS_RETRY_COOLDOWN_MS);
       return;
     } finally {
       lookingUp.delete(panoId);
diff --git a/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/viewer.test.mjs b/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/viewer.test.mjs
index 5f2d7522d..32602575e 100644
--- a/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/viewer.test.mjs
+++ b/src/layers/streetLevel/providers/google/viewer.test.mjs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import test from 'node:test';
 import { createGoogleViewer } from './viewer.js';
+import { DETAILS_RETRY_COOLDOWN_MS } from './policy.js';
 import {
   fakeHost,
   fakeMapsLoader,
@@ -265,19 +266,66 @@ test('a panorama that never shows fails after the timeout and leaves no listener
   assert.equal(loader.listenerCount(), 0);
 });
 
-test('a date lookup that failed is asked again on the next view change', async () => {
+test('failed details lookups cool down through repeated drags and retry after the pause', async (t) => {
+  let now = 1_000;
+  t.mock.method(Date, 'now', () => now);
   const { fake, viewer, poses, host } = setup();
   await viewer.mount(host);
   const getPanorama = fake.library.StreetViewService.prototype.getPanorama;
-  let failures = 1;
+  let failures = 2;
+  let calls = 0;
   fake.library.StreetViewService.prototype.getPanorama = function (request) {
+    calls++;
     if (failures-- > 0) return Promise.reject(new Error('offline'));
     return getPanorama.call(this, request);
   };
   await viewer.open('pano-a');
   assert.equal(poses.at(-1).capturedAt, null, 'undated while it failed');
+  assert.equal(calls, 1);
+  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 2; attempt++) {
+    for (let heading = 0; heading < 20; heading++) {
+      fake.built[0].setPov({ heading, pitch: 0 });
+      await settle();
+    }
+    assert.equal(calls, attempt + 1, 'drags do not retry during the pause');
+    assert.equal(poses.at(-1).bearing, 19, 'pose updates still follow drags');
+    now += DETAILS_RETRY_COOLDOWN_MS - 1;
+    fake.built[0].setPov({ heading: 20, pitch: 0 });
+    await settle();
+    assert.equal(calls, attempt + 1, 'still paused just before the deadline');
+    now++;
+    fake.built[0].setPov({ heading: 21, pitch: 0 });
+    await settle();
+    assert.equal(calls, attempt + 2, 'one retry at the deadline');
+  }
+  assert.equal(poses.at(-1).capturedAt, Date.UTC(2024, 4, 1));
+  now += DETAILS_RETRY_COOLDOWN_MS;
   fake.built[0].setPov({ heading: 10, pitch: 0 });
   await settle();
+  assert.equal(calls, 3, 'successful details stay cached');
+});
+
+test('a failed panorama does not delay details for another panorama', async (t) => {
+  t.mock.method(Date, 'now', () => 1_000);
+  const { fake, viewer, poses, host } = setup();
+  await viewer.mount(host);
+  const getPanorama = fake.library.StreetViewService.prototype.getPanorama;
+  const requests = [];
+  fake.library.StreetViewService.prototype.getPanorama = function (request) {
+    requests.push(request.pano);
+    if (request.pano === 'pano-a') return Promise.reject(new Error('offline'));
+    return getPanorama.call(this, request);
+  };
+  await viewer.open('pano-a');
+  fake.built[0].setPano('pano-b');
   await settle();
-  assert.equal(poses.at(-1).capturedAt, Date.UTC(2024, 4, 1));
+  assert.deepEqual(requests, ['pano-a', 'pano-b']);
+  assert.equal(poses.at(-1).creator, 'Ada');
+  fake.built[0].setPano('pano-a');
+  await settle();
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    requests,
+    ['pano-a', 'pano-b'],
+    'returning respects the pause',
+  );
 });