Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:08:32 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why does favicon.ico show as error in apache log Message-ID: <20040325210832.GA4192@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEILFKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEILFKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:59:04PM -0500, 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? >=20 > Thanks Many browsers are set to automatically probe for this file, whethere it really exists or not. It is used to set various icons in the browswer - especially in your bookmarks and possibly on a tab or some other location on the browser window. It's not a big deal. Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAY0pQO0ZIEthSfkkRAs8WAJ4uImEhAYyzz3rT/1nhpzEmVlYwbwCgkn3N qbmwc/o5rx6uVvrZF5x9jTE= =myXB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--
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