Exclude notification poll from sliding the idle session timeout

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Problem

The session idle timeout (PERMANENT_SESSION_LIFETIME) never fires. The notification poller hits GET /admin/api/notifications every 60s, and with Flask-Session's default SESSION_REFRESH_EACH_REQUEST=True each request rewrites the Redis session TTL back to full lifetime. A user who leaves a tab open is never logged out.

Fix

Mark the automatic poll with an X-Silent-Poll header and override should_set_storage so requests carrying it don't refresh the session expiry (unless they actually modified the session). All other requests, including user actions in the notification drawer, still slide the session.

• enferno/app.py — per-request opt-out in should_set_storage.
• enferno/static/js/mixins/notification-mixin.js — only the interval-driven refetchNotifications sends the header; user-initiated loads do not.

Tests

tests/test_session_poll_refresh.py: silent poll leaves the TTL untouched; a normal request still refreshes it.

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[apodacaduron]

Works as intended, notifications endpoint no longer refreshes session