Re: [cobalt-users] Todays giggle

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Kris Dahl wrote:

> on 4/6/00 6:53 AM, Dom Latter at d.latter@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Gordon wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Serious question - what is "favicon.ico" that so many browsers are looking
> >>> for?
> >> 
> >> internet explorer looks for it and if found, uses it if the user bookmarks
> >> the page as a small side icon (fav=favorites) it's in windows icon format
> >> so you need a windows icon editer to make it , gotta love standards ;0
> > 
> > Many thanks for all the replies.
> > 
> > I'm now tempted to stick a 2MB core dump called favicon.ico in the
> > root and have a banner saying "this site optimised for anything but
> > IE5"....
> 
> While that sounds *very* entertaining, If I am not mistaken the favicon.ico
> has a size limitation of like 64 bytes or something really tiny.

So...what mime type is appropriate for a core dump?....
Actully, i wonder what mime type is getting used for .ico files, isn't 
the default text/text ? wonder how often IE gets corrupted icons...

A more evil thing would be to give it a circular redirect, did that by
accident once and had to kill -9 the browser, it went totally beserk ;0
> 
> -k
> 
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