An unexpected favicon request

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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