- Record
- Method
- Status
- Disclosure
The conventional favicon path served no asset
GET https://brittek.net/favicon.ico returned no icon asset. Icon declarations existed in page metadata, but the path many agents request directly — without parsing a link tag — was unserved.
https://brittek.net/favicon.ico — response status and content type
- Evidence class
- Deterministic — Computed by a fixed rule from the observed response.
- Business effect
- Agents that request the conventional path directly, including several crawlers and link unfurlers, resolved no mark for the practice.
- Recommended action
- Serve a multi-resolution .ico at the conventional path, generated deterministically from the canonical icon.
- Implementation path
- Implemented in this repository; the generator is committed alongside the asset.
- Verification method
- Deterministic production check asserting status, content type and a plausible byte count across all five icon routes, cross-referenced against the manifest.
- Resulting state
- Five icon surfaces verified on production. The path returns image/vnd.microsoft.icon with 48, 32 and 16px entries.
- Unresolved
- The mark itself is unchanged; legibility at 16px was corrected separately and is not claimed by this record.
- Observed
- 2026-08-05 · Verified 2026-08-05