What is this web site trying to do?
Mike McCarty
Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 5 10:51:00 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> Frank Cox:
>
>>>Many web browsers (including Firefox) automatically look for and download a
>
> [favicon]
>
>
> Mike McCarty:
>
>>I use Mozilla, and I see nothing like what you describe.
>
>
> It used to be a configuration option, though probably via the
> about:config conglomeration, rather than in the user-friendly control
> panels.
>
>
>>>favicon.ico file if one exists in the root directory of your website. That's
>>>the little doodad graphic that appears in your location bar beside the site
>>>name. For example, if you go to my website: http://www.melvilletheatre.com
>>>you will see a little film reel in your location bar.
>
>
>>Hmm. That's certainly something I would disable if I could, and if I
>>couldn't I'd change browsers. Sounds like a great opportunity for a
>>security breach.
>
>
> How so? If you're browsing example.com, they already know it. Getting
I'm not trying to keep them from getting that information.
I already know about that.
[snip]
> can't. There'd be far more exploit posibilities in the HTML rendering.
Possibly.
> Yours is the first post I've seen in years of someone wanting to avoid
> the favicons. I've seen more conversations about trying to get them to
> show up, when they sometimes won't.
I can't imagine it, but dif'rent stroke for dif'rent folks.
Mike
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