Re: repeated requests for a file favicon.ico
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:37:24AM +0300, Emil Perhinschi wrote:
> Sorry to bother, but is this an attack? I get repeated requests for a
> file "favicon.ico" that should have been, or so the client connecting
> believes, in the root of my htdocs. The conections come from different
> hosts, and at least in some it seems to be running Konqueror, so it is
> not a Windows worm: "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1004 "-" "Mozilla/5.0
> (compatible; Konqueror/2.2.2; Linux)".
No it's not an attack.
It used to be an Internet Explorer browser feature that when a user
bookmarked a page upon your site it would request the /favicon.ico
to display next to the bookmark.
Now other browsers do it too. If you go to a website such as
slashdot.org and see a small icon in the address bar - this is the
favicon.ico file being displayed.
I'm not too sure how the browser asks for it, on first page load or
only when bookmarked, but it's a fairly common feature now. Galleon,
Konqueror, Mozilla, Firefox, and Internet Explorer will all do it.
> it's a little bit offtopic, but I found nothing about it on cert.org ...
I suspect google.com would be more helpful ...
Steve
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