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🆕 blog! “A Self-Hosted Favicon Proxy written in PHP”
In theory, you should be able to get the base favicon of any domain by calling /favicon.ico - but the reality is somewhat more complex than that. Plenty of sites use a wide variety of semi-standardised images which are usually only discoverable from the site's HTML.
There are several services which allow you to …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/a-self-hosted-favicon-proxy-written-in-php/
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@Edent your “personal git service” link doesn’t resolve
@tommorris I need to stick a shilling in the meter.
I wonder if there's a way in modern CSS to automatically figure out the url('') to avoid having a load of entries like
```
a[href*=".wikipedia.org"],
a[href*=".wikimedia.org"] {
background-image: url('proxy.example.com?domain=wikipedia.org');
}
```
(for completeness:
```
a {
padding-right: 1.6ex;
background: no-repeat top right/1.5ex;
padding-top: 0.1ex;
padding-bottom: 0.5ex;
}
```
)
@zuzak yes, I wrote a bit about it at
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/styling-links-based-on-their-destination/
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