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Martin Hope
anon novice
Asked: 2021-01-25 09:55:16 +0800 CST
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A significant fraction of the requests to my webserver over the last few months are from a single user requesting /favicon.ico:

# tail -n 3 access_log 
XXX - - [24/Jan/2021:17:40:18 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 1845 "-" "WidgetKitExtension/3279 CFNetwork/1209 Darwin/20.2.0" "-"
XXX - - [24/Jan/2021:17:41:22 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 1845 "-" "WidgetKitExtension/3279 CFNetwork/1209 Darwin/20.2.0" "-"
XXX - - [24/Jan/2021:17:41:25 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 1845 "-" "WidgetKitExtension/3279 CFNetwork/1209 Darwin/20.2.0" "-"

(I've censored the IP address.) This is a legitimate user, with occasional human requests (with a different user agent and over http/2) to the site. The most recent human visit was several weeks ago, but the /favicon.ico requests continue unabated, on average four times an hour but often every few minutes or seconds, as seen above. In particular, the favicon.ico requests are not associated with requests to any other resources on the site. I don't know if it's relevant, but the favicon is being served over https (I believe there are no corresponding http requests) and appears to be compressed, as favicon.ico.gz is 1599 bytes.

In searching I've seen a variety of other questions about all sorts of weird favicon.ico request patterns but nothing that explains favicon.ico requests in absence of ordinary web requests.

What could be responsible for these excessive requests? I assume it is some kind of configuration problem by the user agent, but is there some change in server configuration I can do to persuade the user agent to cache the favicon? The server is using nginx. Thanks.

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Martin Hope
allemattio
Asked: 2020-10-02 04:50:46 +0800 CST
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I have some pdf files hosted on Google Cloud Storage. These files are public and I open them using their public link.

Is there a way I can customize the favicon shown by the browser when I view those PDF?

Can I put a custom Favicon for my bucket?

See screenshot to see which icon I mean, is the Icon shown in the browser Tab, this is chrome:

enter image description here

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Martin Hope
Fig
Asked: 2017-03-08 11:56:51 +0800 CST
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I have a server with two websites, A and B. The nginx configuration for my server is quite basic:

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name <url>;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:<port>;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
}

Both websites are served just fine, with the exception of website B, who displays the favicon of website A. It works, however, if I try to access website B using <ip address>:<port>, so I am pretty sure it's an nginx configuration issue.

I tried all sorts of variants of:

location /favicon.ico {
    alias ~/<project folder>/favicon.ico;
}

to no avail.

My server runs on ubuntu 16.04, and my websites run on NodeJS.

UPDATE:

I checked the nginx logs and found this:

2017/03/07 22:05:58 [error] 7013#7013: *10 open() "/root/<project_folder>/favicon.ico" failed (13: Permission denied), client: 37.59.63.164, server: <url>, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", host: "<url>"

So I guess this is a permission issue on this file. However, I don't understand why this file in particular, as it works for the rest of the folder (including statics) and on the favicon of my second website.

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Martin Hope
0xC0000022L
Asked: 2011-12-09 10:02:34 +0800 CST
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All browsers are not equal. Hence I need to explicitly state that I have a favicon ("shortcut icon") for mod_autoindex-generated pages. How can I do that?

Using header (HeaderName) and footer (ReadmeName) is not an option because those get included into the HTML-body. I need to manipulate the <head> part of the generated HTML.

Edit 1: The first reply states to use /favicon.ico. This is not a solution either, because as I stated above not all browsers request that file automagically. I have a very stubborn Firefox 8.0 here that refuses to load it for example. This can be seen in the server logs (missing HTTP request for that existing and readable file - yes, it works in Opera, for example) and and in FF itself (with the Live HTTP headers addin). No HTTP request to the server, which cannot logically be explained with the /favicon.ico not being readable.

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Martin Hope
ersamy
Asked: 2011-09-06 05:49:17 +0800 CST
  • 34

I am using Nginx as my webserver for the first time. I didn't have any trouble to set it up and everything works great. The problem came when the designer asked me if he could send me "the icon in the title bar" to "put it up there".

# /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
...
server {
    listen 80 ;
    server_name *.website.com website.com;
    root /home/webuser/sites/website;
}

My directory:

/home/webuser/sites/website/
|_ index.html
|_ main.css
|_ favicon.ico

Is it possible to put a specific favicon.ico to each Virtual Host? Where should you put that file and how can you configure it?

EDIT:

I just realized that it was a completely different problem. Both answers were right but my problem was the permission. I don't know why the file favicon.ico ended up having permissions 600 and of course the moment I did:

chmod +r favicon.ico

Worked like a charm. I will leave this here if it happens to someone else.

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