Security question regarding root email

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:39 -0500, CodeHeads wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 11:24 -0500, CodeHeads wrote:
> > 
> >>By default apache looks for the favicon.ico. If you do not have it in
> >>the doc root of the domain it will return an 404 error.
> > 
> > 
> > Um, no, Apache does not.  Many *web* *browsers* look for favicon.ico.
> > 
> OK, then why is it in the apache logs????  If it was browser based, then
> the 404 error would not be in the apache logs?????
> 

Will

Apache is the SERVER, and is running on that machine and logs what
browsers are requesting from it.

When a browser requests favicon.ico it gets logged as a request, whether
the file is served or not.

> ~WILL~
>