Posted by The Eclectic Electric on 09/21/06 16:33

"The Eclectic Electric" <nospam@spamispoo.spam> wrote in message
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> "d43m0n AT shaw DOT ca" <barryd.it@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>> The Eclectic Electric wrote:
>>> > Is it possible to interrogate the HTTP accept header for specific
>>> > items?
>>> > What I'm looking to do is to see whether the browser will accept gifs
>>> > for
>>> > the favicon as per standard and serve either an animated gif or a
>>> > normal ico
>>> > as appropriate.
>>>
>>> You can use $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] to see what web browser the user
>>> is
>>> using, and from that compare to a list that you have to see which type
>>> of icon
>>> is supported and deliver the type of favicon to them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> //Aho
>>
>> What the heck are you two talking about, the only way you can tell the
>> browser which favicon to use is in the meta data within HTML. The only
>> thing that php could possible do is apon favicon.php is return base64
>> data of an image through the use HTTP header functions. Often browsers
>> use the defualt favicon.ico in the root of the web directory.
>>
>
> I don't think I understand. The favicon HTML is returned as part of the
> page served after going through the PHP engine yes? If you could
> determine which types the browser supported at that stage then you could
> surely echo back the relevant HTML? I'm thinking now, as it's a <LINK
> REL="icon" /> that there would then be *another* HTTP request to the web
> server in order to retrieve the icon, but that this wouldn't come through
> the PHP engine and so there's still no way you can determine what it would
> be accepting.
>
> Now I'm wondering if I can force it through the PHP engine...
>
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href=http://www.example.com/favicon.php />
>
> This is really distracting!!!!
>

Nah, that didn't work. LOL!

Browser detection it is then...

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