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[privoxy-devel] [ ijbswa-Feature Requests-1585534 ] Distinctive "favicon" in error pages
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2006-10-30 16:37:26
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Feature Requests item #1585534, was opened at 2006-10-27 02:19 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by fabiankeil You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=1585534&group_id=11118 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Cosmetics Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 7 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Distinctive "favicon" in error pages Initial Comment: When Privoxy is serving error pages (e.g., 503, 404, 403), add a distinctive "favicon" (e.g., red "P" icon) to the error pages so that, if we open large number of tabs in a browser window (common for heavy users), where error pages are pretty common (especially for heavy users and users in slow Internet connections, where Privoxy are most needed) yet we can't see the page titles (i.e., the error messages) clearly (because there are large number of tabs opened), we can quickly identify which tabs are erroneous (by their favicons, which are always visible no matter how many tabs are opened in a browser window) and then issue reload/refresh command to those tabs to quickly fix the problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil) Date: 2006-10-30 16:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=875547 If you are seeing the checkerboard pattern, it's probably because the request for the favicon was blocked as image. At least it shouldn't be related to whether or not you have a favicon.ico in your templates directory. I agree that Privoxy should use favicons, but as far as I can see this would require non-trivial changes in Privoxy's source code and therefore I think it's too late to get it into 3.0.6. Files in the templates directory are only delivered if they are registered in Privoxy's cgi handler (the checkerboard pattern itself is embedded in the Privoxy binary). Files in the user-manual directory are always delivered, but the Content-Type guessing is rather limited and will not work for .ico files (they will be delivered as html and the browser will no display them correctly). Having .ico files in the user-manual directory delivered with the right Content-Type wouldn't be a big deal and would happen as a side effect of the planned "webserver for user files" implementation anyway, but IMO the correct way to treat Privoxy favicons is in Privoxy's cgi handler and I wouldn't want to accidentally break it in 3.0.6, which is supposed to be a bug fix release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hal Burgiss (hal9) Date: 2006-10-30 12:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=322640 This is probably a good idea. At one time, favicons were an annoyance, but its ubiquitous now, and can be useful, as in the suggestion. Fabian, do we need some magic to make this happen? I created a red [P] favicon, dumped it into /templates just to see what would happen, and it only shows with the BLOCKED page. AND ... it shows as the little checkerboard pattern, which I actually like better, especially for BLOCKED usage. Cool. We probably could use two or three different ones actually. As suggested one for errors, one for blocks (checkerboard), and maybe one for the website. Ideas, suggestions ???? This would be good for 3.0.6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=1585534&group_id=11118 |