favicon.ico and https

M

MarkMurphy

Hi,

I'm out of ideas on this one. I'm trying to direct IE to get the
favorites icon and the root of my web site from the header of each
page. It works on http but not on https.

Yes, I have tried the following:

<LINK rel="shortcut icon" href="https://<full server
path>/favicon.ico">

Yet, it is still not found. If I enter https://<full server
path>/favicon.ico as a browser location, the icon is displayed in the
browser window.

Thanks!

Mark
 
J

Jim Byrd

Hi Mark - Based on another poster's experience, place it directly before the
page title. Also, another poster reported that he needed to use a capitol F
in Favicon.ico to get it to work, a la:


<link rel="shortcut icon"
href="https://<full serverpath>/Favicon.ico">
<title> your Page Title stuff here </title>

--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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P

Paul Smith

Jim Byrd said:
Hi Mark - Based on another poster's experience, place it directly before
the
page title. Also, another poster reported that he needed to use a capitol
F
in Favicon.ico to get it to work, a la:
Click to expand...

It generally works for a while, you often have to refresh the page a couple
of times and it will click in, but I think it'll only retain the image as
long as it's in your cache.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP Resource Site.

*Replace nospam with smirnov to reply by e-mail*
 
J

Jim Byrd

Hi Paul - That's correct on the client side. These are known as
favicons.ico (Favorite Icons) and they normally will only last until your
Internet Explorer Temp files are cleared.

You need to get a program called FavOrg 1.4 here:

http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/files/favorg.zip

or Version 1.2 here:

http://www.liemar.com.br/construindoseusite/downloads/favorg.zip
http://www.themes.myqth.com/Downloads/favorg.zip

(still free at these links) which will allow you to save them permanently
in a different folder and re-associate your favorites with the stored icons.
(It will also verify whether your links in Favorites are stll good, BTW.)

If you want to read more about it first, go here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,9883,00.asp

You can also try FavIoncizer, here:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp?target=favicons I've used
this and it's quite good,. It will actually find about a third more than
FavOrg does (since it checks for referenced URL's), but lacks some of the
other cababilites of FavOrg, Recommended.


--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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M

MarkMurphy

I'm kind of stumped. I think I've performed all the incantations to
get this to work and still no luck.

https://localhost/qhos/favicon.ico does display the icon.

See below:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<LINK href="common.css" rel="stylesheet">

<LINK rel="shortcut icon" href="https://localhost/qq/Favicon.ico"
type="image/x-icon">
<title>Qualcomm HOS - Log In</title>
<META content="C#" name="CODE_LANGUAGE">
<META content="JavaScript" name="vs_defaultClientScript">
<META content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"
name="vs_targetSchema">
<META content="EN-US" name="MS.LOCALE">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<LINK href="/QQ/common.css" rel="stylesheet">
 
M

MarkMurphy

Any ideas on this one? One correction below. the icon is stored at
https://localhost/qq/favicon.ico. Browsing just that displays the
icon in the browser, so we know it's there. However, pages
referencing it as the favorites icon do now show the icon in the
favorites dropdown. The HTML I'm using is shown below. I'm out of
stuff to try...
 

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