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Todo #6727

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Apple TouchID/FaceID probes for site icon files that do not exist

Added by Andy Kniveton almost 9 years ago. Updated about 15 hours ago.

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Web Interface
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Future
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I notice this occasionally in my log files after logging in via the web browser :-

Aug 18 19:50:38 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 2016/08/18 19:50:38 [error] 36942#100114: *10595 open() "/usr/local/www/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.16.1.20, server: , request: "GET /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png HTTP/1.1", host: "172.16.1.1"

[2.3.2-RELEASE][]/root: ls /usr/local/www/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
ls: /usr/local/www/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png: No such file or directory

[2.3.2-RELEASE][]/root: ls /usr/local/www/*.png
/usr/local/www/apple-touch-icon.png/usr/local/www/logo.png
/usr/local/www/logo-black.png /usr/local/www/pfs-mini.png
[2.3.2-RELEASE][]/root:

Maybe its just worth doing a symbolic link in the next pfSense build.

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login-page-icons.diff (1.31 KB) login-page-icons.diff Jim Pingle, 06/20/2025 07:14 PM
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 #1

Updated by Allistah F over 2 years ago

I'm on v2.6.0 CE and I just got this error myself. Interesting. Seems like it would be an easy fix.

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Updated by Jim Pingle 2 days ago

  • File login-page-icons.diff login-page-icons.diff added
  • Subject changed from Missing file apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png ? to Apple TouchID/FaceID probes for site icon files that do not exist
  • Assignee deleted (Jared Dillard)
  • Start date deleted (08/18/2016)

After some recent discussion this has come back up, and seems to be narrowed down to using Apple's TouchID or FaceID when logging in. The login page doesn't send the icon metadata, but the GUI does send it after login. Proper browsers wait and respect that, they don't probe for those files indiscriminately. It appears Apple's password manager doesn't work the same way as Safari there.

One potential way to address this is to send the icon metadata in the login page, but I don't have any devices with TouchID or FaceID to test against (which is also why I can't reproduce it).

If that doesn't work, we could maybe copy the icons to the hardcoded paths it's probing, but that's not an ideal solution.

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Updated by Rob A 2 days ago

Running the patch and all seems well. Will test in more detail soon.

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Updated by Rob A 1 day ago

Fully tested and patch 6855d0f643a33 is confirmed to work with 25.03.b.20250610.1659. No remaining issues or observations - looks like a fix. 👍

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Updated by Rob A about 15 hours ago

24 hours later and the error returned. No changes so no idea why or why it was over a minute after login.

2025-06-22 10:31:31.000000+01:00    nginx    -    2025/06/22 10:31:31 [error] 24#100557: *13201 open() "/usr/local/www/apple-touch-icon.png" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 2a02:, server: , request: "GET /apple-touch-icon.png HTTP/2.0", host: "router-7.xxxxxxx.me:8443" 
2025-06-22 10:31:31.000000+01:00    nginx    -    2025/06/22 10:31:31 [error] 24#100557: *13201 open() "/usr/local/www/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 2a02:, server: , request: "GET /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png HTTP/2.0", host: "router-7.xxxxxxx.me:8443" 
2025-06-22 10:30:15.450108+01:00    php-fpm    6810    /index.php: Successful login for user 'admin' from: 2a02: (Local Database)
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