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

[Oleg Broytmann]

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)
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