Andrus,

You are doing some stuff that's way past me on the webserver. I was only posting that local file to prove/disprove that IE can natively display a .ico file. IE5.5 does.

Do you need some sort of terminator at the end of the byte stream you are creating for the .ico file when you do the filetostr()?

>David, I need to display .ico files through http protocol, not
>from my local C: disk.
>
>I made a file test.htm :
>
> HTML> body>
> img src='arw01up.ico'>
> /body> /HTML>
>
>If I type localhost/test.htm in IE, IE reads this page using GET request.
>After that, it invokes a http GET request to retrieve ico file:
>
>GET /arw01up.ico HTTP/1.1
>Accept: */*
>Referer: http://localhost/test.htm
>Accept-Language: et
>Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
>User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98)
>...
>
>My vfp winsocket server responds to this request:
>
>this.SendData('HTTP/1.0 200 OK' + chr(13)+chr(10) + ;
> 'Content-Type: image/ico' + chr(13)+chr(10) + ;
> chr(13)+chr(10) + FILETOSTR('arw01up.ico') )
>
>Internet Exporer shows an empty icon with red cross instead a
>image!
>If I open test.htm file directly from c: or use .bmp files instead of
>.ico files, all is OK.
>Why browser will not display .ico files through http ?
>I removed < and chanhged double quotes from message because UT does'nt allow
>to send them.
>
>>This HTML works fine for me
>>
>>>I have a lot of .ico files and want to show them in Browser.
>>>
>>>Internet Explorer 5 displays .bmp files if I return them
>>>using http
>>>
>>>Content-type: image/bmp
>>>
>>>header from web server.
>>>
>>>However IE will not disply .ico files if I use
>>>Content-type: image/ico
>>>http header .
>>>
>>>Is it possible to display .ico files in browser ?