Re: epiphany-list Digest, Vol 23, Issue 13



On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:40 -0500, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:00 -0500, epiphany-list-request gnome org
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 19:45 -0900, Dan Freckleton wrote:
> > > > What's wrong with supporting the standard implementation of favicon.ico
> > > > exactly? For what reason is epiphany limited to only displaying 1 out of
> > > > every 5 of them?
> > > 
> > > It produces huge quantities of spurious file requests, which sucks for
> > > the website host. Admittedly, it's more of a cosmetic issue, since it
> > > can be worked around. 
> 
> How can you (I) work around it?

There are two main problems for website hosts:

1. Tons of requests mean more processing time or bandwidth. Workaround:
ignore favicon.ico requests. Takes very little processing time and no
bandwidth.

2. Server log entries. These can be grepped away.

-- 
Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>

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