(Friendly and compliant) web crawlers look for robots.txt when they index
sites.

I'm not entirely sure about favicon.ico.  I think it gets pulled by some
browsers so that if you bookmark a favorite, you get a site-specific icon
rather than a generic one in the bookmarks list.

Bottom line, though, is that neither is related to wa.

Nathan

At 11:19 AM 2/9/2004 -0500, Bill Verity wrote:
>This is probably a general web server question.  When I look at the
>"error_log" file for apache on the machine that runs "wa" (that's the
>only thing it does),  is see a number of entries like
>
>File does not exist: /etc/local/apache/htdocs/robots.txt
>File does not exist: /etc/local/apache/htdocs/favicon.ico
>
>I'm not aware of having any html that looks for these files.  Are
>they something generic or is this specific to "wa"?
>
>
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