Chris Withers wrote:
Duncan Booth wrote:
What may be more significant is that simply retrieving favicon.ico into IE displays garbage. I don't know why; IE seems perfectly capable of displaying it on the address bar or favourites, but in the main browser window it displays a short curved line and nothing else.
Is the method that's returning it setting the right content type?
I've tried 3 mime types: application/octet_stream: The icon displays correctly in Firefox and incorrectly in IE, other favicon.ico files I've tried with this mime type display correctly in IE. image/x-icon: The same incorrect display in IE and correct display in FF. image/vnd.microsoft.icon: Still displays correctly in FF, but IE decides to dump it as characters instead of displaying a graphic at all.