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Our error logs have hundreds of thousands of lines like this: File does not exist: /usr/local/validator/htdocs/favicon.ico caused by that stupid de facto standard that goes look for a favicon in well-known-location. Adding a <link rel="shortcut icon" ... should do the trick.