see http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19160.html
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Joe Pearson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
> whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> to GET favicon.ico from the same site. Therefor I have hundreds of
> "File does not exist:" errors in my log file.
>
> Thanks Bill.
>
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> Joe Pearson
> Database Management Services, Ltd. Co.
> 208-384-1311 ext 11
> http://www.homecu.com
> http://www.webdms.com
>
