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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: support for favicon.ico
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2000-11-30 0:22:21
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Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> Hans Meine wrote:
> > Simon Hausmann <sh@caldera.de> writes:
> > > > 1. Way: put a file called favicon.ico in the Serverrrot
> > > > 2. Way: use something like <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON"
> > > > HREF="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico">
> > >
> > > How do they do it? Pass it (the url of the icon) as part of the
> > > HTML document?
> >
> > That would be 2., obviously. I knew about 1.:
> > Simply put /favicon.ico on your server so a http "GET /favicon.ico" will find
> > it.
> 
> Getting it isn't a problem.. supporting it is.  AFAIK, there is no
> support for Window Icons in Qt or KDE.  Until there is, it's really
> not practical to support this feature.

IIRC windows .ico files are almost the same as bmps. We might be
able to make a modified version of the bmp filter that supports
the format.

Rich.

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