Favicon.ico weirdness

It turns out that to get Apache to serve a favicon.ico file, the file
has to have its execute permissions set. Is there a reason for this?
Or is it just random weirdness?

rg

Ron Garret wrote:
> It turns out that to get Apache to serve a favicon.ico file, the file
> has to have its execute permissions set. Is there a reason for this?
> Or is it just random weirdness?
>
> rg


That's funny I run Apache 2.0.54 and mine servers the favicon.ico file
using the permissions of 644

Just how are you calling you favicon

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/path/to/your/favicon.ico" />

are you using Linux or Windows?

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:00:41 -0700
Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon@flownet.com> wrote:

> It turns out that to get Apache to serve a favicon.ico file, the file
> has to have its execute permissions set. Is there a reason for this?
> Or is it just random weirdness?

Perhaps that is simply when your browser finally became aware of it.
I know when I was trying to add a favicon to my web server, firefox
apparently had cached the fact that I didn't have one, I couldn't
get it to show up till I flushed the firefox cache and reloaded
the web page.

In article <jaWdnWzj8alMWLTbnZ2dnUVZ_tyinZ2d@centurytel.net >,
David <youcantoo@findmoore.net> wrote:

> Ron Garret wrote:
> > It turns out that to get Apache to serve a favicon.ico file, the file
> > has to have its execute permissions set. Is there a reason for this?
> > Or is it just random weirdness?
> >
> > rg
>
>
> That's funny I run Apache 2.0.54 and mine servers the favicon.ico file
> using the permissions of 644
>
> Just how are you calling you favicon
>
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/path/to/your/favicon.ico" />
>
> are you using Linux or Windows?

Linux. (Red Hat.) And it's just "favicon.ico" in the documentroot
directory. I got a 404 until I did chmod a+x (which I discovered after
reading http://www.yelsew.com/apache-favicon.html) after which it worked
fine.

rg