Frank Boehme wrote:
> Is this an issue?
>
> I have just learned that IE 5.x looks for these little icons at the
> server whenever someone bookmarks a page. Usually, a 404 header is sent
> if favicon.ico is not present in the path to the refering page or
> certain other standard locations.
>
> However, if the page being bookmarked is an active midgard page, then
> some other page may get served. Now, is this something to be aware of? I
> mean could this possibly confuse IE? I never use windows or IE, so I
> can't do much testing.
IE will request http://yourhost/favicon.ico by default when a page is
being
bookmarked. If that isn't present, that's where the story ends. Even if
it is present, but not a valid icon file, IE will silently ignore it.
You can instruct IE to fetch it from somewhere else: if the page being
accessed is http://yourhost/somedir/somepage.html, and the page contains
<LINK REL="SHORTCUTICON" HREF="thispage.ico"> in the HEAD section, IE
will retrieve http://yourhost/somedir/thispage.ico when the page is
being bookmarked. If you put this directive in it would be reasonable
to expect the page coder to make sure this is available. You can have
full
URLs in the HREF:
<LINK REL="SHORTCUTICON" HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/favicon.ico"> in
the
HEAD section will make IE fetch the icon from MSHQ.
Emile
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