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If either of these options should be considered harmful, it's the magic URL. This particular one has been responsible for countless useless requests. Another co
by sjmulder 16y ago
If either of these options should be considered harmful, it's the magic URL. This particular one has been responsible for countless useless requests. Another consideration is whether it's a good idea to have a standard dictate (parts of) the URL layout of a website.
- mathias 16y agoAs the guy who wrote the article, I agree with your point on the magic URL — in an ideal world it wouldn’t be like this. However, it is now too late. /favicon.ico has been the de facto standard for a long time and the HTML spec explicitly mentioning doesn’t really make much of a difference — it is really just standardizing what is already generally supported. It’s time we stop complaining and start embracing this part of the URL layout as if it was robots.txt we’re talking about.