[Zope] What is "favicon.ico" and why is it an error?

[J. Atwood]

Thanks for the help Oleg,

So, does the user get an error page or is the server just sending me an
error cause it is requesting a file that does not exist. I will try testing
with IT (it is not effecting my Mac IE 4.5/5.0)

J

> From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.russ.ru>
> Reply-To: phd@phd.russ.ru
> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:47:27 +0000 (GMT)
> To: "J. Atwood" <jatwood@bwanazulia.com>
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] What is "favicon.ico" and why is it an error?
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, J. Atwood wrote:
>> So even though there are no references to it in the HTML MIE is looking for
>> it? Is there anyway to fool it? Can I just put a blank DTML Document? Why
>> would MIE be checking the server for that file?
> 
> Becasue if it finds the file in a directory it would display it - and
> site admin could put different icons in different directories.
> Return error 404 should be enough, if there is no such files.
> 
> Oleg.            (All opinions are mine and not of my employer)
> ---- 
> Oleg Broytmann      Foundation for Effective Policies      phd@phd.russ.ru
> Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
> 
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