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Fixes #2700

Summary

httpx -favicon clones the page request to fetch the icon. Since #2369, the
clone's Host header is always replaced with the favicon URL's host. That
discards a virtual host selected with -H "Host: ..." or a vhost,ip input
whenever the icon is served by the target itself, so the icon is fetched from
the default host and its hash is wrong or missing.

This keeps a user-set Host for icons on the hostname the request was sent to,
while still using the icon's own host for redirect targets and CDNs, preserving
the fixes for #1333 and #2373.

Reproduction

A server that serves the icon only for the selected vhost:

# icon.ico is returned only when Host: vhost.test, 404 otherwise
httpx -u http://127.0.0.1:8080 -H "Host: vhost.test" -favicon -json

Before: no favicon hash (the request goes out with Host: 127.0.0.1:8080).
After: the mmh3 of the vhost's icon.

Root cause

HandleFaviconHash did:

if resolvedURL.Host != "" && resolvedURL.Host != clone.Host {
    clone.Host = resolvedURL.Host
}

clone.Host is the Host selected for the page request (-H "Host: ..." or a
vhost,ip input), while resolvedURL.Host is the authority of the icon URL.
For a relative icon both describe the same endpoint, but the Host header is a
user choice, not something to derive from the URL. Comparing the two strings
conflates them and drops the virtual host.

Fix

- Detect whether the request's Host was set by the user (net/http seeds it
  with the URL host otherwise).
- faviconRequestHost keeps that Host for an icon on the hostname the request
  was sent to, and uses the icon URL host for an icon on another hostname
  (redirect target or CDN), keeping #2373's behavior.

Tests

- TestFaviconKeepsCustomHostHeader: an httptest vhost server that 404s the
  icon unless the request carries Host: vhost.test; fails on the previous
  code and asserts the resulting mmh3/md5.
- TestFaviconRequestHost: table test for same-host, redirect-target, CDN and
  no-custom-Host cases.
- go test ./... and go test ./runner -run TestFavicon -race pass.

Notes

No behavior change for requests without a user-set Host: the icon URL host is
used exactly as before.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
  * Favicon requests now preserve a configured virtual host when fetching an icon from the same hostname as the original request. When an icon is hosted elsewhere, including after a redirect or on a CDN, the request uses that destination’s hostname. This keeps the request host aligned with the icon’s location while retaining the configured host when the resolved icon URL has no hostname.
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Walkthrough

Favicon requests now preserve an explicit Host header for same-host icons. For icons on another hostname, the request uses the resolved icon URL’s host. Tests cover host selection and verify favicon hashes.

Changes

Favicon Host Selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Select and verify favicon request host runner/runner.go, runner/favicon_test.go	The favicon request path records the explicit Host and original request hostname. It selects a host based on the resolved icon URL. Tests cover explicit and implicit host cases, redirects, CDN icons, and favicon hashes.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• projectdiscovery/httpx#2691: Adds pinned-host handling for Host and SNI across requests and redirects, which is related to favicon virtual-host selection.
• projectdiscovery/httpx#2668: Adds IP-pinned requests that retain the target hostname, including favicon requests that reuse request context.

Suggested reviewers: wlayzz, yeagerist0, mzack9999

Merge Risk: Low · up to c9aac

With redirect following enabled, some favicon requests may use the default virtual host after an absolute same-host redirect, producing an incorrect favicon result; this is a bounded follow-up rather than a merge blocker.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving a user-set Host header for same-host favicon requests.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 3 functions across 2 files.

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

• Autofix · Keep fixing CodeRabbit findings and required CI, and resolving merge conflicts

_{A rabbit checks the favicon’s route
The Host header stays in the right place
Same hostname, the custom value remains
New hostname, its own name is sent
Hashes match the tiny GIF
The rabbit hops on, pleased with the test}

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Nitpick comments: 1

runner/favicon_test.go: 1

62-128: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Cover favicon fetching for vhost,ip input.

The integration test covers -H "Host: ...", not the separate vhost,ip input path. The helper test does not create or send a request. A regression that drops target.CustomHost during favicon fetching can therefore pass both tests.

Add an integration case that enables VHostInput, supplies vhost,ip, and checks the favicon Host and hashes.

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Review comment at @runner/favicon_test.go around lines 62 - 128:
Add an integration test alongside TestFaviconKeepsCustomHostHeader that enables
VHostInput and supplies a vhost,ip target, then verifies the favicon request
uses the virtual-host name as its Host and returns the expected favicon hashes.

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Review comments at @runner/favicon_test.go:
- Around line 62-128: Add an integration test alongside
TestFaviconKeepsCustomHostHeader that enables VHostInput and supplies a vhost,ip
target, then verifies the favicon request uses the virtual-host name as its Host
and returns the expected favicon hashes.

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