On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:43:21AM +0200, Jasper Filon wrote: > I have a little issue with the favicon file. My www root is password protected. But > i also have a /public directory, which can be accessed by everyone. However, when > someone opens a picture in his webbrowser by opening > "www.mydomain.com/public/pictures/picture.jpg", he or she gets a login-dialog, > because the browser tries to open "www.mydomain.com/favicon.ico", which is a > restricted directory. Does anybody knows how to tell apache to simpy send a 404 > (page not found) instead of requiring username/password?
Personally, I'd set a <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/public/favicon.ico"> or similar. I'm not sure if IE respects this, but I believe most other browsers do. Cheers, Dominic (wandering rapidly off-topic). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
