Thanks Denis,
What an excellent idea though. I'm going to create a
16x16 Penguin/Linux icon for just that purpose!!!
Thanks for the info.
Bruce.
>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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