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

Another answer that is even 'easier'.

Just make the user enter the url (including protocol) for their favicon and validate that url returns a favicon. If not then display a validation error back to the end user.

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