[webmin-devel] webmin favicon weirdness

[Colm D. <col...@gm...>]

Hi list,

I am having a problem with favicons with webmin (1.020).

First the symptom : my favicon appears in the URL bar of Firefox but
not beside the name when I have multiple tabs.  Hmm - how odd (I
thought) it does it for all other favicons.

I should point out that I was putting my favicon.ico file in the base
directory of the webserver (i.e. the same directory as
session_login.cgi).  I'd like it to be there - its the default
location for favicons and for silly reasons I won't go into I'd rather
not use the <link rel=3D" ... workaround to reference it in another
location.

Anyway - I think I've worked out why it happens.  When I first go to
any page I get bounced to the login page.  I think at that stage
Firefox is requesting /favicon.ico but that request will get a
response telling it to login i.e. it seems that no document in "/"
will work without a session other than session_login.cgi

So when I'm logged in subsequent requests to /favicon.ico will work
properly (as long as I remember to add "image/x-icon ico"  to
mime.types) but I think Firefox still has some memory of the initial
request not suceeding due to lack of session and no amount of
shift-reloading will convince it otherwise.  OK - so firefox is
behaving a bit oddly but lots of people have it so I'd like to work
around it.

I tried changing (hacking) miniserv.pl to add a special case for
/favicon.ico (to serve it regardless of whether I have a session) and
the problem went away which seemed to confirm my suspisions.

Anyway - any thoughts/advice on this?  Is there any easier way to make
a special case for /favicon.ico to be served regardless of whether I
have a session?  Would this still be an issue in later versions of
webmin?  Am I just missing some much simpler solution?

Thanks.
Colm