[PLUG] Web Site Browser Icon

[Ken Stephens]

Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
>
>   
>> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:22:22 -0800
>> From: Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web Site Browser Icon
>>
>> ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com wrote:
>>     
>>> Favicons can be a real bear to get loaded.  I'd point your browser
>>> directly at the favicon.ico file itself via URL.  That will make your
>>> browser start paying attention to it.
>>>
>>>       
>> That works to see the icon in the browser window, and when looking at it
>> that way, it shows up next to the URL box, and on the tab. But when I go
>> back to the main site, it disappears -- I should say that it is replaced
>> by a default icon that Firefox uses.
>>
>> All this experience has been while viewing the sites with Firefox on my
>> Ubuntu machine. However, when I view either site with Firefox or IE from
>> my XP laptop the icon appears where it is expected to.
>>
>> I wondered if Firefox on my Ubuntu machine had to be restarted, so I
>> tried that. Now the icon appears where it is supposed to. I'll play with
>> it some more to see which of the recommendations needed to be included,
>> and then summarize the whole experience.
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick Steffens
>> www.dicksteffens.com
>>     
>
> Your experience is just like mine always is.  It simply takes a lot of
> coaxing to get the favicon to start working.  Eventually it will start
> working for everyone who visits your site, after enough time has
> passed and things fall out of cache.  Not sure why the makers of
> modern web browsers find it so important to cache a 16x16 image that
> can be delivered in the payload of a single packet.
>
> If you think firefox caches overzealously, try seamonkey.  (This is a
> sarcastic remark.)
>
> Carlos
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Check your error log for the actual location the web server is looking 
for the favicon.ico file.  Then place it there and check your 
permissions to allow the web server access.

Ken
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