: How can I stop 404s from favicon.ico without a favicon.ico? How can I stop requests for favicon.ico without having a favicon.ico? It wastes resources serving a 404 and fills up logs with 404s.

@Samaraweera270

You can block favicon.ico requests from the browsers using the rewrite module for IIS.
Basically you must install the module and activate it. Then you must create a rule in your web.config of your site or use the GUI on IIS Admin for creating it.

You can get more info there: www.iis.net/download/urlrewrite http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/467/using-failed-request-tracing-to-trace-rewrite-rules

And for the rule, google for something like "rewrite favicon.ico"
You will get plenty of hits from the Apache original version of the module, but there also are a bunch of people doing translations you can get on.

Hope it helps.

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@Karen161

You haven't specified a web server however you appear to be involved in .net so I'm going to assume it's IIS

In which case you can filter your logs using something like this learn.iis.net/page.aspx/692/advanced-logging-for-iis---log-filtering/
You can do the same on most servers

You can't actually stop browsers requesting the image.
However if you do have a favicon it can be cached by the browser which can reduce the number of requests coming in.

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