hi,
Our
J2EE application deployed in WAS 6.0 and in the server log we see there are requests to access favicon.gif but without application login (we have siteminder security installed). The URL for the gif and the gif itself is not valid , we do not know how this request is made and which client machine is sending this request, as the login user pin is NULL always. Due to this the sys out log are filling up as WAS throws lot of stack trace.
We hear that favicon is the bookmark icon and we use IE7, so if a user bookmarks a page say /xyz/abc.do URL, will IE try to look for this favicon as /xyz/favicon.gif ? Log says the requests are to /xyz/favicon.gif ...and the requests are not in regular intervals...
We are able to ignore this exception now, but appreciate if someone can tell me how this request is made and how a web.xml or
Struts Controller
Servlet or Filter has to be designed to avoid this request of favicon. or if an application allows book marks should we do any coding in
JSP.?
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Vinod Kumar
