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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:40:03 +0200 (IST)
From: "Zvi Har'El" <rl@math.technion.ac.il>
To: Apache Developer List <dev@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: Missing Mime Type: image/x-icon
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Hi,

Now that mozilla started supporting "favicons", I noticed that Apache's
mime.types file doesn't have the type image/x-icon for .ico files. Thus, sites
like yahoo or netscape, which use unknown and Netscape-Entreprise servers
respectively, return the correct content type on the /favicon.ico URL, while
others like apache or google, which use Apache and GWS servers respectively,
return text/plain on this URL. Although this content type is not registered at
IANA as far as I have been able to check, I do think it should be added to
Apache's mime.types file. In the mean time, I added the line "AddType
image/x-icon .ico" to my Apache server configuration file.

Sincerely,

Zvi.

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Dr. Zvi Har'El     mailto:rl@math.technion.ac.il     Department of Mathematics
tel:+972-54-227607                   Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
fax:+972-4-8324654 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/     Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
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                               Sunday, 7 Shevat 5762, 20 January 2002, 12:26PM