[10494] in bugtraq
Re: MSIE 5 favicon bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Flavio Veloso)
Sat May 8 18:08:42 1999
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 20:24:45 -0300
Reply-To: Flavio Veloso <flaviovs@CENTROIN.COM.BR>
From: Flavio Veloso <flaviovs@CENTROIN.COM.BR>
X-To: Jason <lists@plasmic.com>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <001901be98db$48b60220$0200000a@jason>
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Jason wrote:
(...)
> "The request for the favicon.ico file is first done on the same path of the
> current URL. If the file is not found, MSIE 5 will backup one directory in
> the directory hierarchy and try again. It will do this until it finds the
> file or reaches the web server root (e.g. if you try to bookmark this page,
> MSIE 5 will look for favicon.ico in
> http://web.cip.com.br/flaviovs/sec/favicon/,
> http://web.cip.com.br/flaviovs/sec/, http://web.cip.com.br/flaviovs/ and
> http://web.cip.com.br/)."
>
> My experience is based on the following platform information:
>
> Windows 98 with all available updates (3717
> MSIE 5: 5.00.2014.0216IC 128-bit
>
> Contrary to the information given at the cited URL, my best attempts at
> recreating this alleged phenomenon have been futile. In addition, I am
> fairly confident, based on every log analysis I have performed, that this is
> wrong.
(...)
Hi.
You're absolutely right. Actually I didn't test that and trusted in
the information given by Apacheweek (see
http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/99-04-09).
I'm fixing the page now.
--
Flavio
