favicon.ico

What is this favicon.ico file. Every time someone comes to my site, the
logs say they got the file too along with the starting page. Why is that
so? Previously the logs said the get failed because the file wasn't there.
I've now placed the file onto htdocs directory but what is that good for,
it doesn't seem to appear anywhere.

Google.com => "favicon" =>
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Images/Favicon/
HTH :-)
Regards,
j.

johannes m.r. wrote:

>Google.com => "favicon" =>
>http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Images/Favicon/
>HTH :-)
Ah, yes. The page says it's a feature of IE, but I've seen other browsers
ask for it, too.

Akseli Mäki <akseli.nospaminhererightnow@nic.fi> wrote:
>johannes m.r. wrote:
>>Google.com => "favicon" =>
>>http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Images/Favicon/
>>HTH :-)
>Ah, yes. The page says it's a feature of IE, but I've seen other browsers
>ask for it, too.

I think MS IE was the first to do this thing. Meanwhile Opera supports
it, as far as I know mozilla supports it as well. Don't ask me about
other browsers...
Regards
j.