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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:37:16 -0400
From:      Daniel Harris <dannyboy@worksforfood.com>
To:        Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Having a site-specific icon displayed in Konqueror...
Message-ID:  <20010612093716.A19519@dannyboy.worksforfood.com>
In-Reply-To: <01061214301300.36175@ricin.localnet>; from danny@ricin.com on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:30:13PM %2B0200
References:  <01061214301300.36175@ricin.localnet>

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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:30:13PM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote:
> Hi,
> I've noted that the Konqueror browser now displays small icons in its 
> location widget and on the top left corner of the window which are website 
> specific, for example at www.freebsd.org, slashdot, msn, and many others. I'm 
> pretty sure IE6 will have this feature too because it just looks damn 
> irresistable :)

Of course it will... this feature first appeared in IE5 (or 0, not sure).

> KDE saves these in ~/.kde/share/icons/favicons but my question is.. How do 
> they do that on the server side? After all the icon must be sent to my 
> browser, right? It must be an Apache option I reckon, but I can't find 
> anything about it.

Simply a file named favicon.ico in windows icon format at the document root.

If you don't have access to the document root yourself, you need to use a form
of a LINK tag... <link rel="shortcut icon" href="other/place/someicon.ico">

HTH, 

-- 
Daniel Harris

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