[whatwg] registerProtocolHandler - allow site to specify more info and do custom handling from João Eiras on 2009-09-22 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from September 2009)

From: João Eiras <joaoe@opera.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:54:12 +0200
Message-ID: <op.u0nvkmdy2q99of@id-c0981>

> 2. The location of an icon like a favicon.ico file or png etc.
>

This is actually a real privacy issue. The user agent would periodically fetch a remove favicon, which discloses the end user's ip.
If any, such favicon would need to be made available offline immediately when installing the protocol handler, or a data uri could be used.

Received on Tuesday, 22 September 2009 06:54:12 UTC