From: Bjoern Hoehrmann Subject: Re: favicon.ico file? Date: 31 Jul 2000 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <398da66c.24234236@news.bjoern.hoehrmann.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 964994699 5788293 212.144.32.106 (16 [3583]) Organization: Diener seines Schattens; 1. Wächter der Dunkelheit Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: derhoermi@gmx.net (Bjoern Hoehrmann) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc * Alan J. Flavell wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc: >On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Jan Roland Eriksson wrote: > >> Starting with IE5, MS decided to increase the load on internet > >(Or compromise readers' privacy. Who knows what their real motive >was?) If they really want to compromise readers' privacy, they would send a 'Referer:' header to easily track the user. >IINM it can be more, i.e setting a bookmark for /foo/bar/baz.html >will, I think, look for it in /foo/bar and in /foo and in / > >Bjoern thinks so too: http://www.bjoernsworld.de/ie/favicon.html This was true for MSIE 5.0b2, 5.0 and 5.01. >> If you want to keep clean logs? yes; MS has decided that you must create >> and upload an icon file to your site. > >A crafty webmaster might decide to have the server redirect all the >requests to a single common icon. Unfortunately, my experiments with >IE5 suggest that the browser fails to honour the 30x status at this >point, and stubbornly goes on to hunt down the URL path as described >above. However, in this case Bjoern tells a different story, so I'm >not entirely sure which of us is right. I do not have older Versions of MSIE on my system, so i cannot prove this, but using redirections solved the 404 not found problem in my logfiles. What definitely worked, was to send a redirect to another server/port and i think MSIE followed all my redirections. MSIE 5.5 (release version) shows another behaivour, let's play HTTP Server. MSIE shall request 'http://bw:99/a/b/c/d/e/f' and then I bookmark the page: D:\dev>netc -l -p 99 bw GET /a/b/c/d/e/f HTTP/1.1 Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/x-comet, */* Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Host: bw:99 Connection: Keep-Alive HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 4 GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Host: bw:99 Connection: Keep-Alive MSIE 5.5 does not crawl the path segment hierarchie up to the root any longer. Btw. after sending: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 4 Location: http://bw:88/fav MSIE requests: D:\dev>netc -l -p 88 bw GET /fav HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Host: bw:99 Connection: Keep-Alive (Hey, cool, i found another bug in MSIE 5.5, the 'Host:' headers value must be 'bw:88' ...), so it follows my redirects definitely. I will add this new facts to my homepage. Gruss, Björn Höhrmann -- "Jede Straße, der man konsequent \ und du wirst ihn in Gänze sehen. bis zu ihrem Ende folgt, führt un- ) Stehst Du auf seinem Gipfel wird weigerlich ins Nichts. Erklimme ( er für Dich unsichtbar" -- P. einen Berg nur ein kleines Stück, \ Irulan