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by Alec Muffett

Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

Here’s a silliness that I’ve meant to publish/collate for some time; a lot of webservers – post installation – never get their favicon.ico file updated; from my perspective this manifests itself as visiting a (usually commercial) URL and being surprised to see a small Sun Microsystems logo pop-up in the URL bar of my browser – at which point you know from where they got their webserver.

I’ve always meant to get around to collating these things, but never quite pulled it together; having found another this morning, this seems an opportune moment to blog it:

[www1.avaya.com]

…and then add the remainder/updates into the “comments”.

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Comments

23 responses to “Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico”

  1. Chris Gerhard, the mad cyclist.
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    Time for a web crawler to go and and find them all Alec.

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  2. alecm
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    I was considering that – I am quite certain that there must be a way to drive google to “return all URLs for which the MD5 checksum is […]” – which would solve the problem at a stroke; but I’ll bet that they on’t advertise that functionality…

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  3. alecm
    Found another one!

    http http://www.royalmail.com/ – doing parce tracking, you get one as the result of a query!

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  4. Robin Wilton
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    Aaah – good. I’ve been noticing (but not actively ‘collecting’) the “iPlanet” ones. Call me nostalgic… Woudl you like those as well? Yrs., Robin

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  5. Chris Samuel
    Searching by MD5

    I suggested that to Google, er, 2 years ago or something, but nothing ever happened about it.

    It would damn useful at times (like when trying to fix peoples Windoze systems)!

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  6. Chris Samuel
    Searching by MD5

    I suggested that to Google, er, 2 years ago or something, but nothing ever happened about it.

    It would damn useful at times (like when trying to fix peoples Windoze systems)!

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  7. alecm
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    yah, go on. i can collate for a few months and then post an update.

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  8. DanX
    http://www.vanguard.com has sun logo

    http http://www.vanguard.com/ has the sun logo

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  9. Robin Wilton
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    Mmmkaay. Here’s an iPlanet one (I couldn’t resist pointing at this specific article… ;^)

    http http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_19/b3932153_mz027.htm

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  10. DanX
    http://www.china.org.cn has sun icon

    The Chinese Government News Service webpage, China Internet Information Center http http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm

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  11. Ghost
    US Senate

    http http://www.senate.gov/ and all Senate websites… http allen.senate.gov, etc…

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  12. alecm
    re: US Senate

    Now that’s cool!

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  13. Rich Sharples
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    I responded to some TSS flaimbait with a list of *BIG* sites that I know run Sun’s web or App. (including NES, iPlanet, etc.) the thread is here :

    http http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=28909#139372

    Not all of these return the default logo.

    http blogs.sun.com/roller/page/sharps

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  14. Craig Steinberger
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    us.hsbc.com

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  15. Robin Wilton
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    Two birds with one stone: http http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/text/50321-18.htm

    Not only does the House of Lords Hansard site still have the iPlanet ‘swoosh’, but this entry contains a rather good attack on the UK IDentity Card proposals.

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  16. xencat
    re: http://www.china.org.cn has sun icon

    Hah. I just found that, remembered this post, found it checked and you’d already posted. 😀

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  17. Chris Gerhard
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    Barclays Bank:

    https ibank.barclays.co.uk/

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  18. Dan Lacher
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    Another site: http http://www.cis.state.mi.us/brs_cdc/sr_lfl.asp

    State of Michigan in the US on the Department of Human Services pages

    dl

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  19. Chris Gerhard
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    http awesomehouseparty.com/house/home.jsp

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  20. Steve-O
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    http://www.collegeboard.com

    The College Board shamelessly advertises Sun Microsystems!

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  21. Dan Lacher
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    http http://www.dailypress.com/features/food/dp-28726sy0may31,0,542539.story

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  22. Chris Gerhard
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    http http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-wh-nsawiretapping,0,1906650.flash

    and an amusing animation about the NSA.

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  23. Chris Gerhard
    re: Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

    Centre for topographic information in Canada,

    maps.nrcan.gc.ca/

    I’m going to start just posting them to del.icio.us with two tags: sun & favicon.

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