On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:19:30 EST, Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> 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"?

That's because you probably don't.  Anything fetching robots.txt is
probably a spider for Google or other search engine - I can't remember
offhand who fetches favicon.ico (I suspect both IE and Mozilla do - that's
where they get the little site icon for the location bar).