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Quick links > Website Icon: it doesn't work on localhost:xxxx links #578

Open simonbcn opened 1 year ago

simonbcn commented 1 year ago

I have Emby media server installed on my computer. I have added it to Quick Links and I have indicated as icon the favicon of the server itself (Website Icon). But it does not retrieve it: 2023-02-11_15-26

It is a general problem in all links to local servers because it did not work with the jackett server either.

the-wright-jamie commented 1 year ago

So I was actually looking into this the other day: turns out the icons aren't accessed directly by the browser - a proxy is used to retrieve them.

For Google Photos, the favicon is retrieved from https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/passwords.google.com.ico

So for localhost, the favicon is retrieved from https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/localhost, which if you follow that link you can see that it gets that icon you're seeing.

I don't know how they'd fix this, I could imagine a fetch or XHR request but it's not up to me.

I'm not a developer or maintainer on this project, I just enjoy snooping the issues