On 22/02/07, James Keeline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- 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 >
I'd have to agree with James, some clients only check to see if the file is there by trying to load it. No form of scanning is performed. I've not used IE for ages, only for testing so I'm not sure if favicons actually load in the address bar. I know it didn't for me, but it did find the favicon when i bookmarked the page in IE; which is actually the purpose of a favourite icon (hense the name). Phill
