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143.115.159.53 - - [05/Dec/2002:09:06:52 -0800] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.0" 404 2140 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)"
143.115.159.53 - - [05/Dec/2002:09:06:53 -0800] "GET /gifs/chalk.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 14483 "-" "Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)"
The "/gifs/chalk.gif" is an animated gif inside my custom 404 page.
This is a first for me. Any other time favicon merely shows the 404 and that's the end of it.
Thanks.
Pendanticist.
Other browsers look for the favicon.ico every time you visit a site, not just when you make a bookmark.
René
I understand what you say.
What I was wondering about is why it exclusively asks for the gif (/gifs/chalk.gif) contained within my missing.html file rather than the missing.html file itself.
Never saw anything like that before.
Example:
This is a Netscape browser.
203.45.69.206 - - [02/Dec/2002:03:45:20 -0800] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 2140 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0"
This is a MSIE browser.
65.33.7.105 - - [02/Dec/2002:08:11:57 -0800] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 2140 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
Normally and in both of these cases, both/all browsers only show the 404 error. Nothing more, nothing less.
Another thing I just this minute noticed is how (as shown in my original post) the IP has changed browers. In the space of one second, the same IPs browser went from:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) _to_ Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)
I don't pretend to know a heckuva lot about this string stuff, but changing browsers?
Do you see what I'm trying to point out here? Not only does it request a gif within my missing.html file, but it also seems to change browsers.
Whatchu think?
Thank You.
Pendanticist.
Here [webmasterworld.com] is a link that should help to understand that UA a bit more. Particularly Bird's post.
