Re: MSIE 5 favicon bug

[flaviovs () CENTROIN COM BR (Flavio Veloso)]

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