[Owncloud] OwnCloud - Question about fetching favicons in bookmark section

[Andrei Nistor]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:52:27 +0100, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> How about this for a favicon workflow?
>
> 1) Download favicon. It's the first time it's been used, store it as
> www.example.com.0.ico and add that favicon to the database.
> 2) Second person adds a bookmark in www.example.com. Download the
> favicon, and then diff it against each of the dns-named favicons 
> which
> have been downloaded - currently only www.example.0.ico - if it's the
> same, delete the downloaded favicon and re-use www.example.com.0.ico
> in the database. If it's not the same store it as
> www.example.com.1.ico.
> 3) User deletes their bookmark which is the last instance of
> www.example.com.0.ico. System deletes www.example.com.0.ico from the
> system.
>

I'd like to propose an alternative:

Download favicon, compute it's hash (using MD5/SHA1/whatever). Look up 
the hash in the database, if it doesn't exist, insert it, if it exists, 
use it.

P.S. sorry for the double reply, missed the CC list on first try.
-- 
Andrei