Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 03/08/07 03:38

dorayme wrote:

> What exactly does
>
> "MSIE looks automatically for "favicon.ico" in the root directory
> of your site, this can be irritating as sites without them tend
> to get a lot of 404 errors generated from it."
>
> at this url mean?
>

It means that some browsers search for the file "/favicon.ico" without
having it explicitly coded in the markup. So if you do not have a file
named "favicon.ico" in your document root you can see 404 errors for the
file in your server logs. MSIE is not the only browser, Firefox also
looks for the file. You can confirm by putting an image/x-icon icon
16x16px in your document root and see what happens even if your don't add

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" src="/favicon.ico>

to the document...

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Take care,

Jonathan
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