Re: Obtaining the Favicon without downloading?

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On Nov 21, 1:05 am, Nathan Moinvaziri <nmoinvaz...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't believe the web browser control actually downloads the
favorite icon. I think that might be the job of the application that
hosts the web browser control. So you could iterate through the DOM
and then download the favicon that is specified in the DOM.

Nathan

Seriously? It must at least be in the IE cache though, right? I
suppose I could try looking for www.domain.com/favicon.ico in the
cache and hope they use the old-style method, instead of the link/rel
specification...
.

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