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).
What do I do with it?
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/:
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 -
Like the website? Want to give back? Please visit my wish list!
