Am I the only battling service vendor who actually feels good when
somebody bookmarks my website ?
I can absorb the overhead of accesses to a favorites icon.
This may be a security hazard for the client, but I detect a
holier-than-thou attitude here against M$.
Will somebody tell me why this M$ initiative is bad, other than for
pre-determined prejudices ?
Rgds
Rod Butcher
Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Joe Pearson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
> > whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> > to GET favicon.ico from the same site. Therefor I have hundreds of
> > "File does not exist:" errors in my log file.
>
> Apparently you can BSOD a winbox with a buffer overflow in a .ico file,
> although I don't know where the exploit is listed on the net (distant
> memory). Maybe that would stop this dumb practice. :)
>
> (I _am_ just kidding).
>
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