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| ▲ | Jtsummers 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Permitted? Technically, it can't be stopped (well, it kind of can, see "Tolerated?"). Expected? No, it's counter to the intentions of the community. Tolerated? Maybe. Here's a fun one (saw this in one of the past discussions dang linked): https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora/issues/199. That was over favicons, but the response would be similar if linked images were automatically fetched. Though the protocol has a "backoff" return code that could be used to throttle those things that would be less disruptive than Drew's approach of banning specific clients. |
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| ▲ | 1313ed01 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They are not supposed to do that, but some clients have an option to enable it anyway. There are also clients that make a second request to ask for a favicon. In the spirit of the protocol the "icon" is just a UTF-8 symbol, but that behaviour is still controversial. |
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| ▲ | zzo38computer 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Only if the page is inside of a ZIP archive stored on the local computer and only if the link is to a picture within the same ZIP archive. (However, it would be good to have an option to disable inline display even in that case.) |
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| ▲ | immibis 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Not really, in fact they're forbidden - those clients are spec-uncompliant. |
