Not working at some sites

Most of the time this plugin works. However, it fails to get favicon from some websites. For example, it hangs on www.bestbuy.com for long time before reporting “Error”. During the hang, the cancel button does not interrupt the wait. www.hertz.com does not work with the same symptom. And if I load the page with Firefox, I can clearly see the <rel type="icon"> or <rel type="short icon"> nodes.

Some other sites fail with their login subdomain, but succeeds with the “www” domain. For example, reg.usps.com fails, but www.usps.com is OK. Further, https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin fails, but https://www.amazon.com/ is OK.

[navossoc]

Yes, to be honest some of this things are on my TODO list…

Including this one: https://github.com/navossoc/KeePass-Yet-Another-Favicon-Downloader/issues/2

I should have finished this already, but unfortunately those last few days are very busy.

Some of this errors are not just “can’t find the favicon”, maybe a failed TLS handshake with the server or something like that. .NET enforces some kind of security rules. That is why the log will be useful and it it should be done already.

Besides that, the cancel action works between downloads, it is not async with each download per self. What I mean is if you have 10 downloads total and 4 of them are running, you can cancel the other 6 immediately. This is a limitation on how I write the code, but can be improved later.

I was targeting a lower .NET version (C# 2.0) so it can be mono/linux compatible, but mono has others bugs that prevent its operation on some cases anyway. So I’m not sure if that was a good decision at the time.

Now that I have a small user base (3k downloads, yay!), including some linux users, it may be easier now to develop and test all that.

Hang in there 😉

[photonometric]

Glad more people are noticing this plugin and you feel your efforts are appreciated, You do good work on this ^^