How We Got the Favicon (2017)

Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by Jaruzel on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:07AM (#24117584)

It could be time for browser maintainers to start removing support for automatic favicon.ico requests, and fall back to simply supporting the meta tag.

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Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by account42 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:54AM (#24120894)

This would break the favicon for direct image links, PDFs and automatic directory listings.

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Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by Jaruzel on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:26AM (#24129724)

Well, the browser could just stop doing it for certain types of content.

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