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Windows 8 favicon errors still shown by checker #40

Closed oldchestnut closed 10 years ago

oldchestnut commented 10 years ago

After putting all the generated files into the root I still get the following errors when I run the domain through the checker again...

"Some recommended pictures for Windows 8 / IE 11 are missing: 70x70 picture 150x150 picture 310x310 picture 310x150 picture

browserconfig.xml is not present."

broswerconfig.xml is in the root.

As are the following files which were generated. The images listed above were not generated automatically. favicon-196x196.png favicon-160x160.png favicon-96x96.png favicon-16x16.png favicon-32x32.png

phbernard commented 10 years ago

Is the web site live, so I can check by myself?

oldchestnut commented 10 years ago

yes, is there some way i can private message the address to you?

phbernard commented 10 years ago

Sure! Drop me an email at philippe@realfavicongenerator.net

phbernard commented 10 years ago

(private exchange summary: http://somesitehere.com/browserconfig.xml is not accessible)

Same observation here. I don't know what's wrong with this file, but at this point the behavior of the checker is normal: browserconfig.xml is not accessible and a Windows 8 device won't present the tiles it declares.

oldchestnut commented 10 years ago

I have a very complex .htaccess which could still be causing the problem. I have fixed one part of the htaccess which was blocking browserconfig.xml earlier, but I can see no issues in the htaccess now.

Should I assume that the browserconfig.xml file definitely works and that there is a problem somewhere in my setup?

phbernard commented 10 years ago

A regular Windows 8 device (such as the Surface 2) will try to load /browserconfig.xml to discover the tile pictures, and more. If it can't load it... The checker reflects this behavior and it gives the correct diagnosis: browserconfig.xml appears to be missing.

The content of your browserconfig.xml looks correct, and the referenced pictures are accessible. So I think everything will be alright as soon as browserconfig.xml becomes accessible too.

oldchestnut commented 10 years ago

OK. I'll continue looking for the issue on my side.

What is the user agent presented by the checker?

phbernard commented 10 years ago

It uses the UA of a Surface 2: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0) like Gecko".

However, although filtering by UA will cause no harm today, I advice you to let anyone access this file. For example, surprisingly, Coast (iOS browser made by Opera) uses the 144x144 tile picture. Granted: this picture is not declared in browserconfig.xml. But this is the sign that other browsers and platforms might someday use this file for unforeseen purposes.

oldchestnut commented 10 years ago

I found the problem! :) I had a RedirectMatch 403 (......|config.xml)

This blocked browserconfig.xml, after modifying the rule slightly it now works and all the checks now pass.

Thanks.

phbernard commented 10 years ago

Good! You're welcome.