[Xitami-Dev] favicon.ico

[Rob Judd]

Hi guys,

If you've seen your server logs filling with requests for this file,
it's only IE 5 looking for an icon to associate with links to your site.
You have the following choices as to what you should do about it:

1. Block requests for the file in your firewall

2. Install a virus called favicon.ico to crash IE 5 :)
   See http://www.magnux.com/~flaviovs/sec/favicon/privacy.html

3. Play Microsoft's silly little game and install an icon

If you decide to go #3 you'll need to add the following to xitami.cfg in
the image MIME types section:

    ico=image/x-icon

Then create a 16x16 16-colour icon and link it from your site's header
template (you're still handwriting html? shame!) thusly:

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/path/foo.ico">

Icon editors are a dime a dozen, or you can do it online at
http://www.favicon.co.uk

Cheers!

Rob Judd
http://www.ob-wan.com