Preventing favicon requests

[martok]

Hello,

I have been getting many requests for favicon.ico in my error log and would like to get rid of them. Though I have found several articles on designing favicons, I am content with the browser defaults and don't want to design an icon for every website I run. Is there an html metatag which will tell the browser there is no favicon and not to attempt the request?

Thanks.

[bcolflesh]

Might be easier to just make an empty file named favicon.ico and place it there.

[martok]

Hmm, I didn't realize that would work. What will a browser do if it fetches a malformed icon from the server? Will the user see an error?

[Frequent]

Why not just make a favicon that's generic enough that it works for all your sites but is different from browser default. A big red dot or something. Just use the same one on all of your sites.

Freq---

[bcolflesh]

Will the user see an error?

Nope.

[Wlauzon]

Easy way it seems to me is just put in a favicon.

[grelmar]

it only takes 30 seconds to make a favicon, something like the already mentioned red dot. We're talking about a 16x16 pixel image here, how hard could it be?