I don't have a favicon.ico, but IE always make a request for it.
Is it possible to prevent the browser to request for the favicon.ico for my site? Maybe some META-TAG in the HTML header?
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You can't. All you can do is to make that image as small as possible an set some cache invalidation headers (Expires, Cache-Control) far in the future. Here's what Yahoo! has to say about favicon.ico requests.
Ionuț G. Stan
2009-08-24 11:39:20
He said he doesn't have a favicon. They don't get much smaller than that. And it doesn't make any sense to cache non-existant files.
innaM
2009-08-24 12:07:39
If he doesn't have a favicon then he should make one, that was my point. There's no better solution than this one. Isn't it logical? If there's no possibility to stop requests, **unless** you use caching, what do you do?
Ionuț G. Stan
2009-08-24 12:40:56