How can I stop requests for favicon.ico without having a favicon.ico? It wastes resources serving a 404 and fills up logs with 404s. Right now I put in a dummy favicon.ico file but I would prefer a method of just telling browsers don't request favicon.
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You haven't specified a web server however you appear to be involved in .net so I'm going to assume it's IIS In which case you can filter your logs using something like this http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/692/advanced-logging-for-iis---log-filtering/ You can do the same on most servers You can't actually stop browsers requesting the image. However if you do have a favicon it can be cached by the browser which can reduce the number of requests coming in. |
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You can block favicon.ico requests from the browsers using the rewrite module for IIS. Basically you must install the module and activate it. Then you must create a rule in your web.config of your site or use the GUI on IIS Admin for creating it. You can get more info there: http://www.iis.net/download/urlrewrite http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/467/using-failed-request-tracing-to-trace-rewrite-rules And for the rule, google for something like "rewrite favicon.ico" You will get plenty of hits from the Apache original version of the module, but there also are a bunch of people doing translations you can get on. Hope it helps. |
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