On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 05:23:29PM +0000, solderpunk wrote: > Well, it's not really within the scope of the Gemini spec to explicitly > forbid things like this. If people want to write clients which do it, > nobody can stop them. If people want to do it, I strongly encourage > them to make it an option the user can easily disabled. Some people, > myself included, hold the "one request per page" principle in very high > regard, so I probably wouldn't add this to a client of mine, even if I > had a graphical one where it made sense. That's my attitude also. If someone wants to expend a TLS session for a tiny picture then that's their business. :) Thanks for the comments all. Clearly there is no consensus whatsoever on how favicons work so there is no right or wrong. It's interesting to hear about the special casing in GLV-1.12556. Cheers, Tom
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