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Asked: 2026-06-06T11:55:10+00:00

Let’s assume that I want to add a favicon on a dynamically generated page

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Let’s assume that I want to add a favicon on a dynamically generated page (specifically an ADF Faces page, but this is irrelevant). I can’t modify a tag of my resulted html.
So I try to add a http-header in servlet header. I want my header to be identical to html head element:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://foo.com/favicon.ico">

I’m adding it this way:

httpResponse.addHeader("Link", "<http://foo.com/favicon.ico>; rel=\"shortcut icon\"");

And in my browser I see this header in response:

Link: <http://foo.com/favicon.ico>; rel="shortcut icon"

But, unfortunately, this does not have any effect in IE or Chrome. Anyone tried to achieve the same thing? Am I doing something wrong? Is that should work at all?

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  1. Editorial Team

    And the answer is: this method relies on proposed standard (a draft) that is not implemented yet (thanks to Salman A for pointing this out).
    Though it would be great if it worked.

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