Downloading with custom provider Google with unexpected behaviour/result from Google API

[Eddict]

hi, i have this url; https://www.pluimen.nl which has a (regular) favicon.

var hostname = GetValidHost(url);
rips of the https part and only the domain is passed in the next lines of code

providerURL
has a final value of https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.pluimen.nl&sz=128

that address gets redirected to
https://t0.gstatic.com/faviconV2?client=SOCIAL&type=FAVICON&fallback_opts=TYPE,SIZE,URL&url=http://www.pluimen.nl&size=128
which leads to this default broken/not exiting pic;

if you check that redirected url, it uses http instead of https 🤨
but the API does that for every url so i do not understand this behavior. perhaps i would if the http:// address, in this case http://www.pluimen.nl, would lead to a 404 or whatever error, but it gets redirected as expected to https://www.pluimen.nl

then i just replaced the http by https
https://t0.gstatic.com/faviconV2?client=SOCIAL&type=FAVICON&fallback_opts=TYPE,SIZE,URL&url=https://www.pluimen.nl&size=128
it leads to (showing the 16 pixel size here for clarity)

of course you cannot do anything about this, but then i wondered if the API has some sort of parameter which can set/force https.
there is none it seems, the whole API is undocumented already anyway.

but then i tried the following (added the protocol to the domain param);
https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=https://www.pluimen.nl&sz=128
and that gets redirected to
https://t0.gstatic.com/faviconV2?client=SOCIAL&type=FAVICON&fallback_opts=TYPE,SIZE,URL&url=https://www.pluimen.nl&size=128
so that way the https part gets preserved 🥳

so would it be possible to change this? so prefixing the final value of the domain parameter with the http(s):// protocol part.
thanks a lot!

regards Eddict

[navossoc]

I think you can hard code the https prefix, like this:

https://t0.gstatic.com/faviconV2?client=SOCIAL&type=FAVICON&fallback_opts=TYPE,SIZE,URL&url=https://{URL:HOST}&size={YAFD:ICON_SIZE}

You can use the placeholders that are available right now to build our own URLs.
{URL:HOST} and {YAFD:ICON_SIZE}

In the future I can try to parse the custom URL provided and expose more placeholders, like: {URL:SCM}
https://keepass.info/help/base/placeholders.html

Cheers

[Eddict]

i guess you mean this? (i dont want to 'hardcode' the redirected url)
https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=https://{URL:HOST}&sz={YAFD:ICON_SIZE}

nice alternative indeed, but then i force everything to https, not sure if that will ever lead to issues (although http addresses are ver rare and should be avoided anyway).

i like the placeholders idea, let me play with that! maybe i can code it myself and create a pull request when done.
thanks again