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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Virus
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:27:40 -0400


on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:04:24PM -0400, John Beimler wrote:
> begin quotation from Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com> [on 010920
> 11:17]::
>
> > on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:17:49AM -0400, K. Jo Garner wrote:
> > >
> > > [whine deleted]
> > >
> >
> > [secondary whine about favicon.ico deleted]

Boy, you guys are merciless. It's too bad that you don't seem able to
read English. I already said that I used my own favicon.ico file on
several of our sites. I had to configure Apache to deal with the
idiotic default behavior of IE, though.

RedirectMatch permanent .*/favicon\.ico$
http://dhtml-guis.com/images/dhtml-guis.ico

This way, any request for favicon.ico on the entire site is redirected
to my custom (and top-level) favicon, even those that start lower down
in the site hierarchy, as is IE's default practice.

63.109.119.35 - - [19/Sep/2001:15:02:58 -0400] "GET
/book/resources/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 301 330 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)"

194.170.168.236 - - [09/Sep/2001:05:04:46 -0400] "GET /book/favicon.ico
HTTP/1.0" 301 318 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)"

192.122.134.249 - - [09/Sep/2001:22:43:19 -0400] "GET /code/by/favicon.ico
HTTP/1.1" 301 330 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)"

The users in these cases bookmarked "/book/resources/", "/book/", and
"/code/by/", and had I not configured things to intercept and redirect
such requests, IE would have chopped directories off the path one at a
time until it either found a favicon.ico file or gave up.

What would have happened if someone bookmarked the following URL?

http://example.com/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j/k/l/m/n/o/p/index.html

Anyway. Screw it. I was just pointing out what I saw as irresponsibly
brain dead software architecture and discussing several ways to deal
with it. I'm sorry that you guys read it as whining. If you'd read it
more closely, you might have realized differently.

Steve

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