weird favicon issue

PCZero

PCZero

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On my server, I cannot get any favicons to who up in the tabs for IE8. I have the wollowing code in the <head> of all pages...

<link rel="icon" href="http://www.mydomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mydomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

The favicon shows perfectly in FF but not IE.

I then went to another site foo.com, not on my server) and their favicon showed up in FF and IE. I changed the code in my <head> to call their favicon directly from their server. Bingo it shows up in both FF and IE.

I then save a copy of their favicon on my server change the code to call their favicon off of my server and again it breaks in IE. WTF???
 
PCZero

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<sarcasm> wow what a great idea I would have never thought of that</sarcasm>

Anyone have any REAL solutions.
 
PCZero

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Thank you but OBVIOUSLY the valid icon file has been eliminated by the procedures described above. The link you provided was of no help, I tried that already. This is NOT related to IE or my code. That has been eliminated by the steps I described in my OP. It has to do with MY SERVER and some settings there as it ONLY is broken when linking to a favicon ON MY SERVER.
 
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I would suggest that you check Apache eror log and mod_security log, but obviously you have checked them already :p
 
PCZero

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1) Touche'
2) Yeah they were checked but just for grins I looked again. Not a thing in there related to favicon.

This really seems odd to me. Why would an exact copy of the favicon that is on (and called form) the remote site work but when it is on and called from my server it does not work? If I had another box to test it on I'd upload a file there calling the favicon off of my server and see what happens.
 
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OK here is a little more info that leads me to believe that the issue is related to my web server...

Web page stored on on my server:
calls favicon on another server -> favicon shows in tab
calls copy of other servers favicon on my server -> favicon does not show in tabs

Web page store on another server:
calls favicon locally from the other server -> favicon shows in tab
calls copy of the other servers favicon from my server -> favicon does not show in tabs


It seems to me that it has to be something to do with teh way my server is handling favicons for IE8. Can someone point me in the direction of where this might be happening?
 
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