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
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