fix(webui): ship an icon the browser can decode, and stop answering the shell - #205
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…he shell Found in a HAR capture from a real session: **sixty-six requests for `/favicon.ico` in fifty-one seconds**, one to two a second without pause, every one answered `200 text/html` — about forty kilobytes of the client shell spent on a tab icon. The cause is three facts that had never met. `webapp/index.html` declares no icon, so the browser asks for `/favicon.ico` by convention. No build has ever produced that file — there is no `webapp/public/` directory at all. And this module is the router fallback, so anything not claimed by an API route gets the shell. The browser cannot decode HTML as an image, learns nothing from a 200, and asks again on the next occasion. The comment in `asset()` already listed "favicon.ico" among the things it serves, assuming a file that never existed. Both halves are fixed because either alone leaves the loop reachable. The icon is declared and shipped — the brand mark from the client's own sidebar, an accent square with four equaliser bars cut out at the heights `.brand-mark i` gives them — so a browser that reads the document asks for that and caches it. And `/favicon.ico` is reserved, so one that asks by convention anyway gets a 404: a definitive answer, given once, instead of a 200 that teaches it nothing. The test asserts the content type and not only the status, because the type is what the browser choked on, and it holds whether or not a client build is embedded in the binary under test — the Rust suite runs against the placeholder. Verified against a real release binary as well: the icon answers `image/svg+xml`, and `/favicon.ico` answers a JSON 404. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HreLtK4rFopmncpZEHzp59 Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
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In `@tests/service.rs`:
- Around line 295-300: Update the Content-Type assertion for the /favicon.ico
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"Not `text/html`" is also satisfied by a content type that never arrived, so it pinned nothing about the answer actually given. The route answers a JSON error body, and the assertion says so. Removing the reservation still fails it, now on the status and the type both. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HreLtK4rFopmncpZEHzp59 Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
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In `@tests/service.rs`:
- Around line 290-307: Extend the favicon coverage near the existing
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| // A 404 is a definitive answer. Asserted on the content type rather than on | ||
| // the status alone, because that is what the browser choked on — and this | ||
| // holds whether or not a client build is embedded in the binary under test. | ||
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| // Stated as what it *is* rather than as what it is not: "not HTML" is also | ||
| // satisfied by a header that never arrived, so it would pin nothing about | ||
| // the answer actually given. | ||
| let icon = get("/favicon.ico").await; | ||
| assert_eq!(icon.status(), StatusCode::NOT_FOUND); | ||
| assert!(icon | ||
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| .map(|value| value.to_str().unwrap().to_owned()) | ||
| .unwrap_or_default() | ||
| .starts_with("application/json")); | ||
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Ajoutez un test pour /favicon.svg. Le test actuel couvre uniquement le fallback /favicon.ico. Il ne vérifie pas que l’asset SVG est accessible avec le statut 200 et le type image/svg+xml. Ajoutez une requête /favicon.svg avec ces deux assertions pour couvrir ce comportement distinct.
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In `@tests/service.rs` around lines 290 - 307, Extend the favicon coverage near
the existing /favicon.ico request by adding a GET request to /favicon.svg,
asserting a 200 OK status and an image/svg+xml content type. Keep the existing
/favicon.ico and /reference-guide assertions unchanged.
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A session in front of the running client, plus the code reading that explains what it showed. Two findings are actual defects rather than absent work, and they are kept apart from the rest for that reason: a track with no canvas re-asks for a ticket on every mount, because the two zeros that stop a live ticket from being cached also stop the stable "there is none" from being remembered; and a session whose refresh has failed polls now-playing every thirty seconds forever instead of returning to the sign-in screen. The same console clears three things that look like defects and are not — one favicon 404 rather than sixty-six, which is what #205 was for; a web-vitals crash from a library absent from both `package.json` and `bun.lock`, so injected by the browser's own tooling; and a refused connection during a rebuild. The interface requests from the session are recorded with the reservations they need. Two are answered with a no and the reason: a one-to-two second floor on the branded loader would make the app permanently slower to hide 79 ms, and deliberate fake latency would treat a missing transition as if it were a missing delay. One measurement contradicts what this session first claimed out loud: route splitting saves about 18 kB of 466, because React and TanStack are 276 kB of it and are due at the first byte. The module untangling it implies is still worth doing, for the graph rather than for speed. The album that appears twice is filed as unverified, because the screen cannot settle it — only the files' tags can. Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
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Found in a HAR capture from a real session, not by reading code: sixty-six
requests for
/favicon.icoin fifty-one seconds, one to two a second withoutpause, every one answered
200 text/html. About forty kilobytes of the clientshell spent on a tab icon, every session, forever.
The capture named the culprit too — the request's initiator is
otherwithAccept: image/*, so it is the browser asking for the tab icon, never thepage's own code.
Three facts that had never met
webapp/index.htmldeclares no icon, so a browser asks for/favicon.icobyconvention.
webapp/public/directoryat all —
dist/holdsassets/andindex.html, nothing else.src/webui.rsis the router fallback: anything no API route claimed gets theshell.
So the browser receives HTML where it asked for an image, cannot decode it,
learns nothing from a
200, and asks again on the next occasion. The comment inasset()already listed "favicon.ico" among the things it serves — assuming afile that had never existed.
Both halves, because either alone leaves the loop reachable
An icon is declared and shipped.
webapp/public/favicon.svg, drawn from theclient's own sidebar mark: an accent square with four equaliser bars cut out of
it, at the heights
.brand-mark igives them. A browser that reads the documentasks for that instead and caches it.
/favicon.icois reserved. One that asks by convention anyway now gets a404— a definitive answer, given once, rather than a200that teaches itnothing. The reservation is documented as being there for that reason and not
because the server claims the path, since shipping a real
.icolater wouldmean taking the line out: a reserved path is refused before the assets are
looked at.
How it was checked
The test asserts the content type and not only the status, because the type
is what the browser choked on — and that assertion holds whether or not a client
build is embedded in the binary under test, which matters because the Rust suite
runs against the placeholder. Removing the reservation fails it.
Also verified against a real release binary with the client built in:
and the served document carries
rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg".Gates:
cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy -D warnings,cargo test --all-features(all targets),tsc, Biome, vitest 121/121, Playwright 95passed / 7 skipped. CodeRabbit: clean.
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/favicon.icorenvoient désormais une réponse404 Not Foundau format JSON, sans contenu HTML, au lieu de charger la page principale.