favicon in Perl CGI module

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I'm writing a CGI script in Perl using the CGI module (CGI - perldoc.perl.org), and I can't find the exact syntax to add a reference to my favicon .ico file in the <head>. Any insights?

Thanks.

2

You don't do it that way. You simply put favicon.ico on the server in the top-level directory of the virtualhost's DocumentRoot. The web *browser* will try to get it by default.

3

I actually don't have access in this case. I am working only with a single subdirecory. I read somewhere that you can override the default top-level favicon, but I can't figure out how.

4

Favicon is requested on the client side, its either there or its not there.

5

Ok, according to wikipedia, sourced from W3C,

So just add this in your CGI output AFTER the <HEAD> opening tag and BEFORE the </HEAD> closing tag.

So in PerlCGI, you would so something like this:

 print start_html(-head=>[ 
              Link({-rel=>'icon',-type=>'image/png',-href=>'favicon.ico'}),
 ]);