An unexpected favicon request
Sean Conner
sean at conman.org
Tue May 26 09:29:35 BST 2020
It was thus said that the Great Thomas Karpiniec once stated:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed an interesting error in my server log:
>
> status=51 request=gemini://gem.1.21jiggawatts.net/posts/favicon.ico
>
> I guess somebody is experimenting with this in a client - it looks
> like it was an automated request following a .gmi file. What's odd is
> that it's looking in exactly the same directory as the page that was
> requested, rather than the domain root.
>
> It strikes me as a bug but I thought I'd bring it up to see if anyone
> thinks otherwise!
I found requests for favicon.ico from last week. Perhaps it's a web
proxy?
Anyway, I set up my server to serve up a favicon.ico no matter where it's
requested (oh yeah, new feature to GLV-1.12556).
-spc (That shouldn't be a problem, right?)
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