At 9:43 AM +0100 6/9/2000, Toby Dickenson wrote:
The user wont see error; just the default icon in the favorites menu.
You are correct. They don't see the error but it still produces a Zope error.
Add this to the many reasons that I hate MIE!
do you have a robots.txt, or are webcrawlers evil too? ;-)
This, on the other hand, does not product a Zope error, just is logged as a 404. It is also useful in keeping search engines away from certain areas of your site. The favicon.ico trick really has no use, no functionality, no deeming qualities. M$ also did it in a bitmap as opposed to a jpg/gif which makes it much bigger than it should be. It also tells the server that a user has bookmarked your site, which to some users might seem like yet another breach of privacy. J