Unwanted favicons

[Daf]

Hi all,

Here is the problem I'm having with the favicons.

I have a main site favicon loaded into the root directory - this is used on all of our site pages. Recently we started hosting some content for other domains - they bring it into their site with iframes or directly as in the case of swf videos.

For the directories with the hosted content I do not want our favicon to show. I thought it was as easy as not linking to it in the head section but apparently that is not even needed as it shows in the address bar whether it's linked or not. Every page and even directory indexes show the favicon.

How can I clear out that favicon when needed?

Here is a link to swf file - with no corresponding html - that does not contain the favicon linking - yet the "BB" favicon is present.

http://www.ktbb.com/wilsonlaw/wilsonq02process.swf

Thanks for any thoughts on this - I appreciate it.

Daf

[abduraooft]

I think it can be removed by changing the name of your favicon from the default name(favicon.ico)to something else Or by moving it to some other directory from the root and then explicitly specify the new name/path in the head section of the required pages!

[Daf]

Excellent! Changing the name of the favicon and links to it - eliminated the unwanted/unlinked icons. Thank you so much!

Daf

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

I believe Firefox and Opera look for favicon.ico files automatically even without linking to them.

[Daf]

I believe you must be correct as that appeared to be the case. I was a little surprised that pages without the link were showing the favicon. I would add, tho, that IE7 was doing the same thing. :confused:

Thanks
Daf