[Info-vax] Apache log rotation

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-11 14:12:23 +0000, Neil Rieck said:

> re: favicon.ico
> 
> My previous statement requires a little explanation.
> 
> According to what I read over at wikipedia a couple of days ago, the 
> original purpose of favicon.ico was to place a little graphic in front 
> of your url on a bookmark menu. It was also placed before the URL in 
> the address bar "if the page was bookmarked".

Yeah, and its usage got generalized in HTML4, and in the earliest 
Firefox browser versions, and in other tools.  This stuff is old...

> While inspecting my Apache logs for a different problem, I noticed a 
> huge number of references to favicon.ico (many more than this time last 
> year when our client's were only allowed to use IE6; they now use IE8).

You're dealing with an enterprise site and its legions of locked-down 
client devices.

When it arrives, BYOD tends to blow open a hole below the web waterline 
in those organizations.

BYOD: Bring Your Own Device; an anathema to centralized single-browser 
IT groups everywhere, and particularly those that have heavily invested 
in custom applications tied to specific browser features, and then (and 
for various possible reasons) haven't maintained those applications and 
tools.

> But we have noticed that tabbed browsers expect favicon.ico to be 
> available (probably in the browser's cache) so it can be used "to 
> precede the web page title" on each tab.

Different browsers and different versions do different things with the favicon.

And again, this favicon stuff is old...  Even older than the VMS Apache 
version. :-)


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