From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 11:15:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A8816A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:15:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6C543D1D for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:15:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:15:56 -0600 Message-ID: <40632FC8.9060700@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:15:20 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040322 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barbish3@adelphia.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Mar 2004 19:15:56.0890 (UTC) FILETIME=[99928BA0:01C4129D] cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Why does favicon.ico show as error in apache log X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:15:23 -0000 JJB wrote: >I do not use this favicon.ico file in my web site, But an small >number of the visitors for some reason try to get this file which is >not there. This is reported as file error in the analog apache log >reports. Can someone explain why some visitor browsers try to get >this file, and what I can do to fix this? > >Thanks > > > Possible that the "small number" are those using MSIE5. IIRC, the browser looked for "favicon.ico" by default (e.g. whether or not the site in question had linked said file....) Here's a classic, entitled "the Dastardly Favicon.ico not found error": http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Images/Favicon/ I can't say her workaround is necessarily what I'd do. That said, I think my main site has favicon support now. I believe this "feature" was changed after MSIE 5.0 due to things like this: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,19160,00.html entitled "another privacy hole in IE 5?" I guess you could detect their browser version and give 'em a JS popup that says "Please upgrade your browser!" .... Kevin Kinsey