IE 4/5 hits are more than 50% of the http://translator.go.com/ site I am
working on, and I make sure I serve up a favicon.ico to all of thos
guys. I get lots of bookmark requests and love it.
Rod Butcher wrote:
>
> 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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> >
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>
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