On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 11:22:33PM -0800, Denis Voitenko wrote:
> 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.
Has anyone tried to make favicon.ico a redirect to eg. a batch file or a
.reg file ? I didn't try it myself, but it would be interesting to see if
it actually allows malicious web-sites to execute code on the clients or
mess with their registry...
Just a thought ;)
[oh, I smell we're getting way off topic for -net here...]
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