HttpURLConnection - “https://” vs. “http://”

Question

I\'m trying to get the favicon of the url the user enters, for example

_url = \"google.com\";

I use HttpUrlConnection to get the Bitmap of

Answer 1

Note: I am not sure how helpful my answer would be.

You can grab the favicon using google:

http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=stackoverflow.com

returns:

You don't have to specify http or https.

 http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=my.yorku.ca ===>> (https://my.yorku.ca)

returns:

But this is not the actual favicon that https://my.yorku.ca uses. So, I guess google returns a default one for sites that do not provide access their favicons.

InputStream is = null;

String urlPrefix = "http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=";

String _url = "google.com";

Bitmap favicon = null;

try {

    is = (InputStream) new URL(urlPrefix + _url).getContent();

} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

favicon = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);

You can actually keep a copy of the default favicon and check if:

if (defaultBitmap.sameAs(favicon)) {
    // favicon wasn't available
}