Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:25:57 +1000 From: John Vender <john@jmv.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: favicon.ico, was Attempted Buffer Overrun in via httpd? Message-ID: <l03102800b7925dfa3b15@[203.173.153.244]> In-Reply-To: <20010804212404.B30510@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> References: <AKEHJOKOLKBEPGPDHLMJKEFOCBAA.rob@bobflash.com> <20010804201849.A30510@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <AKEHJOKOLKBEPGPDHLMJKEFOCBAA.rob@bobflash.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
favicon.ico is requested by IE since 5 when someone bookmarks a page, it= allows the site to provide a custom icon which shows up with the bookmark.= A nifty way to track IE bookmarking stats but I somehow doubt most IE users= realise they are letting webmasters know they are bookmarking their pages,= most probably don't care as with cookies. Cheers...John Louis LeBlanc wrote: >Of course, but for each miss, I end up with a message in my inbox >notifying me of a 404 encountered on my site. It doesn't happen >often, once in a while someone requests favicon.ico, which is probably >someone trying an innocuous test to see if I am running a server and >which one. <snip> >--=20 >Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net >Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) >http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net =D4=BF=D4=AC > >Bureaucrat, n.: > A person who cuts red tape sideways. > -- J. McCabe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?l03102800b7925dfa3b15>