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favicon.ico
24 January 2000
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If you run a web server, no doubt you've seen entries in your logs like
this:That bothered me for quite some time. Then I went searching to find an answer. I found it at http://www.favicon.com/. See also Putting the Daemon into Windows. And don't forget to read How to create favicon-icons on Unix machines. |
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What is it?
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| This is an advanced browser feature. It allows for an icon
pertaining to the site to be recorded against your bookmark. That''s quite nice, but
some browsers seem to request a favicon from each and every page they visit. That is
not nice. But I've caved in and I've given up. I have to have a favicon.ico.
My nerves are running ragged from seeing that message in my error logs. I
awake in the middle of the night wondering how to fix it. I went searching on the freebsd mailing list.and found help from John Russell jr@paranoia.demon.nl who sent me samples/favicon.ico, for which I am grateful. John claims to have obtained this icon from the Hummingbird/Exceed PC inetd program. If you want to see what the graphics looks like, this page has two sizes, one is quite small (10KB) and the other is a bit sizey (45KB). |
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What do I do with it?
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Put your favicon.ico in the directory of your choice. I put mine in
the root directory of my website. You can also use a different icon on
different pages if you prefer. I snatch this from http://www.favicon.com/:
<HEAD> <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.example.org/myicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <LINK REL="SHORTCUT" HREF="http://www.example.org/myicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <TITLE>My Title</TITLE> </HEAD> |
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What you'll see now
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The next time someone requests your favicon.ico, you'll be happy in the
knowledge that you are spreading the BSD Daemon image around. And you'll also see
this in your logs:
"GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.0" 304 - |