--- Rob M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> For the browser to do a 'directory' scan, the HTTP: ROOT folder must have
> the permission's '777' to allow a directory listing.
> 
> I hope this helps, Rob M.

I hope that's not true.  It would be particularly risky to allow any user to
write to the directory.  A sure invitation to web page vandalism or worse.

On a *nix system, the ability to search a directory by a user on the server is
the read and the execute bits for that directory.  Hence, the typical
permission is 755 (drwxr-xr-x) which give all rights to the owner but
read+search for the group and other users.

The browser may or may not try to load favicon.ico from the top web directory. 
If you don't have the file, you will routinely see 404 errors for the missing
file.  There is no "searching" of the directory by a client side application
other than taking a stab to load a file it thinks might be there.

Since it seems to work for FF2 with and without the www, it is likely not an
HTML or even a server config issue.  Instead, it is probably up to your browser
and OS versions and whether it tries to get favicon.ico.

James Keeline

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