On 20 Apr 99, at 11:43, David Gillett wrote:
> 2. To web site owners:
>
> Delivering the icon to surfers is going to create a log entry on your
> server, saying that FAVICON.ICO was delivered. So when someone does a search
> for "favicon.ico", they're likely going to find three kinds of matches:
>
> a. discussions of this issue (probably not many)
>
> b. pages containing that link to the icon if it's not at the root
> (optional)
>
> c. log files containing entries recording delivery of this file, that were
> accessible to the search engine's indexer and so are probably world-readable.
>
> Given that (a) and (c) should be fairly rare,
Er, that should, of course, have read "(a) and (b)"....
David G
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