This is not that puzzling. The file favicon.ico is requested by IE5 when
someone is trying to add your page to the bookmarks. Should you create a
Windows standard 16x16 icon and place it in the very root of your [web]
server, whenever someone adds you to the bookmarks your icon will show up
next to the link. I personally think it's a good feature and wish NN had it.
Denis Voitenko
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 7:22 PM
Subject: favicon.ico
> Hi y'all,
>
> I thought I would share a wee puzzle with you all - I can't find any info
> on this particular subject
>
> Whenever those poor unfortunate windoze users use IE to access our
> Apache (Linux) server, I receive an error message in the apache logs. It
states
> that they are trying to recover favicon.ico.
>
> This Icon is requested everytime - independent of the site that they are
> trying to reach. The error (404) is not fatal and they reach the site
> anyway.
>
> What is favicon.ico and should I put a dummy blank/empty file there??!!
>
> Regards,
> Bruce
>
>
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