It's not just IE. Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. also fetch favicon.ico - probably every browser that hits your site. If your webapp is set up as the root webapp then it will receive these requests, and you should either handle them or ignore them. -- Len
On 3/13/06, Tim Diggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you read around, you'll find that IE automatically (and > non-standardly) asks for (GETs) favicon.ico in various standard places - > even if you have no links to it from your served html. > > Sounds like your servlet mapping is including some of these favicon.ico > requests. So I'd tighten up your servlet mapping - and to spare your > logs, create and serve a favicon.ico in the default location. > > > > Pusukuri, Kishore_Kumar wrote: > > actually in our web application we have a search feature , if we are > > using that in logs we found that some functions such as user > > authentication and getting path informations etc are called twice > > ..second time if I LOG the above details in path info I am getting > > favicon.ico ... > > could u tell me, how to avoid the extra call of the details? > > > > thanks, > > kishore > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Pusukuri, Kishore_Kumar > > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 4:11 PM > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: RE: what is favicon.ico? what its significance? > > > > > > > > > > what is favicon.ico? what its significance? > > > > thanks, > > kishore > > > > - > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
