RC2 Firefox will not display favicon.ico as an inage

[Guest100906]

When I'm at my favorite website and I want to display their favicon.ico I cannot with RC2 2.0. For example, I type

http://www.domain.com/favicon.ico

I expect the favicon.ico image to display as an image, but it only display a bunch of characters.

[dickvl]

Not every site has a favicon and that site apparently is one of them.

[Guest]

Not every site has a favicon and that site apparently is one of them.

No this is my own website and the favicon display just fine using IE. Could you verify if RC2 2.0 displays a favicon.ico as described in my first post? If your nit running the RC2 then could you verify it displays in any other version.

[a;skdjfajf;ak]

Since when did IE show Favicons? I just checked in IE and ther is nothing there but the 'boring' folder with an E on it.

[dickvl]

If that link is correct then that icon should show in any Fx version by clicking that link.

GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Host: www.domain.com

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:08:27 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Status: 200
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.domain.com/_css/ddc-style.css.php

So that url redirects to http://www.domain.com/_css/ddc-style.css.php

[Southbayriders]

So here is my dilemma. Lets say that I want to display the favicon.ico at google, I can type:

http://www.google.com/favicon.ico

the favicon is displayed. But on my forum when I try that with Firefox RC2 all I see is a bunch of characters. If I try it with IE on my forum no problem. Another bit of information, Firefox displays the favicon on other websites correctly as with my example on Google.

[dickvl]

"But on my forum when I try that with Firefox RC2 all I see is a bunch of characters"
So what is the (complete) url of your forum?

[Southbayriders]

"But on my forum when I try that with Firefox RC2 all I see is a bunch of characters"
So what is the (complete) url of your forum?

Now try it on your forum with IE and it will show the favicon.

Perhaps there is a server setting to fix this? I'm running CentOS Linux 4.1.

[dickvl]

You didn't give the forum url, so could you please do that?
It is possible to specify the favicon in the source code.

[Southbayriders]

You didn't give the forum url, so could you please do that?
It is possible to specify the favicon in the source code.

I prefer not to give out my forum, but I think I have narrowed it down to a centos problem. Try this:

http://www.centos.org/favicon.ico

notice that with firefox all you get are a bunch of characters, but with IE it displays the favicon correctly.

[dickvl]

http://www.centos.org/favicon.ico
That icon is send as text/plain and Fx displays it as text.
You can save it (File > Save Page as) and then it will display correct if you open in Fx or an image viewer.

GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Host: www.centos.org

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:26:38 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:11:36 GMT
Etag: "8ab1-e36-20e26a00"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 2065
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=10000
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

See: http://web-sniffer.net/

[Southbayriders]

Thanks dickvl.

What change would I make on my centos server so that the favicon.ico would be sent as an image instead of plain text if I type:

http://www.mydomain.com/favicon.ico

[dickvl]

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Pr ... MIME_Types
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

[Southbayriders]

Thanks again dickvl,

I really appreciate the time you spent helping me resolve this problem. Adding this to my htaccess file did the trick:

# Favicons
AddType image/vnd.microsoft.icon .ico

[dickvl]

You're welcome.