how can I use a url instead of path? about serve-favicon

[dougwilson]

You can't. See the module's description including the link to Wikipedia regarding what can be done. Web browsers will automatically make a request to GET /favicon.ico, so you need to serve the icon up at that address for the browser to get it. If you don't want to keep the icon file on your local file system, you can always use the request module or similar to fetch the icon on your server, and then provide the Buffer object to this module as the icon.

[mauricionr]

👍 any guess?

[hadifarnoud]

@dougwilson I tried doing that and failed. Asked a few people too but we were not able to get it to work.

can you kindly provide an example? I had to write the whole thing without your package but would be nice to switch

[dougwilson]

Something like this:

module.exports = createApp (cb) {
  var app = express();

  // ... do setup / add things

  request({ method: 'GET', url: 'http://example.com/favicon.ico', encoding: null}, function (err, res, body) {
    if (err) return cb(err);

    app.use(serveFavicon(body));

    // .. continute to setup app

    cb(null, app);
  });
};