190471 - Web site icon (favicon) can't be re-cached

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Ian Collier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030117, build 2003011714

This is related to bug 188636 but a bit different.  Obviously we don't want
Mozilla to go reloading favicons all the time but it would be useful if it
checked back now and again (once a week or once a month?) to see if the favicon
changed.  Even without that (as I realise it's controversial), it would be nice
if there were a way to deliberately re-cache the icon without having to
invalidate the entire cache.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set browser.chrome.favicons to true.
2. Create a web site that doesn't have /favicon.ico
3. Visit the web site.
4. You've decided your web site should have an icon, so create /favicon.ico
5. Reload your web site.  Obviously no icon (as discussed above).
6. Manually visit /favicon.ico on your web site.
7. Icon appears in the browser window but not the URL bar.
8. Go to about:cache and list the disk cache entries.


Actual Results:  
The cache now has two entries for /favicon.ico - one saying it exists and 
one saying it doesn't exist.  This is clearly inconsistent.  Of course, when
Mozilla draws the URL bar it believes the cache entry saying it doesn't exist
whereas when Mozilla loads the icon as document content it presumably believes
the entry saying that it does exist.

Expected Results:  
Remove the incorrect cache entry and re-cache the icon, thus enabling it to
be displayed in the URL bar.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

shift-reload works for me ... it will reload all objects on that page.