Andrew Macks wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Ben Donohue wrote:
>
> > "get /blahblah/favicon.ico http/1.0" 404 172
> >
> > obviously i don't have a favicon.ico hence the 404 file not found.
> > but why is the search engine or whatever looking for a favicon.ico?
> > beats me. i know i could make one but...
>
> When an IE (urk!) user tries to bookmark this site this icon file is
> requested to put next to the bookmark in their 'Favourites'. I was
> tempted to put a "Download Netscape Now!" icon in it's place :P
>
> Upon failing to find favicon.ico in the current directory, it usually
> tries the root (/) of the site aswell.
>
> [thinks evil things] :P
Me too!. How does one generate a .ico file? It would be nice to
have an anti-Micros~1 favicon.ico to place in every web accessible
directory I have :-).
Erik
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