On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Joe Pearson wrote:
> 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.
Oh, that's an easy fix. If you're using Apache, just stick a redirect
into your config so that favicon.ico requests are redirected to the
microsoft.com site.
RedirectMatch permanent ^.*favicon.ico$
http://www.microsoft.com/please/fix/your/stupid/browser
Barring that, redirect it to your own favicon file (preferably not named
'favicon.ico', though, unless you /like/ infinite loops.) You'll need to
grab /all/ requests for favicon.ico, though, as IE is so dumb it looks for
the file in any subdirectory as well, so if the bookmark is for "/some/dir"
it will look for "/some/dir/favicon.ico", and so forth.
Steve
