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I’m more surprised that the Safari new tab window makes GET requests to every “favorite” URL, which I gather is what was happening.

by baddox 9y ago

jedberg 9y ago
It's updating the thumbnail screenshots. This only happens if you have the Safari "blank page" be your favorites instead of either your "home page" or a truly blank page.
- josteink 9y ago
  > if you have the Safari "blank page" be your favorites instead of either your "home page" or a truly blank page. Yay for modern user friendly applications making simple words like blank completely meaningless and ambiguous.
  - Senderman 9y ago
    The commenter may have called it a "blank page", but Safari doesn't; it just labels the setting as "New tabs open with...", with "Empty page" being one of the choices.
  - ascagnel_ 9y ago
    That's on the poster -- Safari calls it "Top Sites", with explicit options for "Empty Page", "Home Page", etc.
Senderman 9y ago
If I recall, Safari's default is to show your "favourites" screen in a new tab, which routinely refetches to update icons/previews. I'm skeptical that it's "every time" but I do remember it doing it way more than I thought was needed.
mozumder 9y ago
Now I wonder if Safari (& other browsers) has distinct headers for their favorites lookups, to tell these lookups apart from real users and discard these accesses from site analytics..
- kalleboo 9y ago
  They do, "X-Purpose: preview"
wpearse 9y ago
Hey! I've been thinking about this all day. I thought it was a GET to fetch the title of the page, but it might only be an OPTIONS or HEAD request? I'm not sure. Either way, my code activates the garage door on that endpoint no matter the HTTP verb.
jholman 9y ago
Literally the reason HTTP verbs are a thing is so that User Agents like Safari can do exactly this. If this weren't a by-design property of the HTTP protocol, we wouldn't even have methods. Read the spec!

I’m more surprised that the Safari new tab window makes GET requests to every “favorite” URL, which I gather is what was happening.

by baddox 9y ago

I’m more surprised that the Safari new tab window makes GET requests to every “favorite” URL, which I gather is what was happening.

jedberg 9y ago

It's updating the thumbnail screenshots. This only happens if you have the Safari "blank page" be your favorites instead of either your "home page" or a truly blank page.

josteink 9y ago
> if you have the Safari "blank page" be your favorites instead of either your "home page" or a truly blank page. Yay for modern user friendly applications making simple words like blank completely meaningless and ambiguous.
- Senderman 9y ago
  The commenter may have called it a "blank page", but Safari doesn't; it just labels the setting as "New tabs open with...", with "Empty page" being one of the choices.
- ascagnel_ 9y ago
  That's on the poster -- Safari calls it "Top Sites", with explicit options for "Empty Page", "Home Page", etc.

Senderman 9y ago

If I recall, Safari's default is to show your "favourites" screen in a new tab, which routinely refetches to update icons/previews. I'm skeptical that it's "every time" but I do remember it doing it way more than I thought was needed.

mozumder 9y ago

Now I wonder if Safari (& other browsers) has distinct headers for their favorites lookups, to tell these lookups apart from real users and discard these accesses from site analytics..

kalleboo 9y ago
They do, "X-Purpose: preview"

wpearse 9y ago

Hey! I've been thinking about this all day. I thought it was a GET to fetch the title of the page, but it might only be an OPTIONS or HEAD request? I'm not sure. Either way, my code activates the garage door on that endpoint no matter the HTTP verb.

jholman 9y ago

Literally the reason HTTP verbs are a thing is so that User Agents like Safari can do exactly this. If this weren't a by-design property of the HTTP protocol, we wouldn't even have methods. Read the spec!