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.onion URL via text message (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I text only a functional .onion URL to an iMessage recipient, Apple is somehow able to add the correct favicon/apple-touch-icon to the message despite the fact that the content should not be accessible at all to anyone when I’m connected to my provider or my home WiFi.

What have I missed here?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you sure this is not handled on-device?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No. But even if it is, how would the icon appear if I have never visited the .onion site?

on-device

You don’t mean like a pre-existing list of potential .onion sites that iOS users may one day visit, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't say for sure, but I message could easily visit the website to get the icon. This is how signal works when you send a website, it visits the website to also share the website name and a screenshot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is exactly how Apple and almost all messaging apps work for almost all http: and https:. But there are no Apple-developed TOR-protocol products.

Apple has easy access to Google’s icon if I message a link to, say, https://google.com/; how can Apple emulate that behavior if I message a link to http://fully-functional-domain-with-identifiable-branding.onion/?