How to set a favicon for a markdown page

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I would like to serve a favicon when my markdown page is accessed. Any recommendations? Or should this be a feature request??

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I did this by adding to the javascript file that I had already specified in the js argument in the markdown directive:

window.onload = function() {
  var link = top.document.createElement("link");
  link.type = "image/x-icon";
  link.rel = "shortcut icon";
  link.href = "/wiki.ico";
  top.document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(link);
}

Until there is a favicon directive for markdown, I guess this might be the easiest way.

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Don’t browsers request /favicon.ico if you don’t offer an icon link tag? Try rewriting that to /wiki.ico and see if your browser picks it up.

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Haha, brilliant! Just put a favicon.ico in the directory and it works without any other setting necessary! I guess I thought caddy would be really secure and not serve files with other extensions.

Anyway, I removed my javascript and renamed wiki.ico to favicon.ico!

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What do you mean by this?

(Browsers will request favicon.ico regardless.)

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Caddy will serve any files you put in the webroot, by virtue of being a web server, which is pretty much expected (and ubiquitous) behaviour. How else would someone get your favicon anyway? Don’t put stuff in your webroot if you don’t want it served :stuck_out_tongue:

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Muddled thinking… Of course a web server will try to serve files requested.

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