How to provide a favicon to a Tomcat webapp which is not served on root in order to avoid browser&#0-CodePudding

For an intranet project I have a Tomcat serving a website under http://myserver.local:1234/boilergraphs/index.html

I develop new features for this webapp in Eclipse. For debugging I am using heavily the Web Developer Tools of the external browsers Chrome and Firefox. Both browsers test automatically for

CodePudding user response：

A totally different way to get rid of the 404 error cluttering your developer console, is to provide a favicon in the HTML of the page. This has the advantage that you do not need to fiddle just for the favicon with added files and routing.

Here an example(*); just add to the HTML page (say, index.html) between the <head> ... </head> tags:

<link href="data:image/x-icon;base64,AAABAAEAEBAQAAAAAAAoAQAAFgAAACgAAAAQAAAAIAAAAAEABAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEhEQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD//wAA//8AAP//AAD//wAA//8AAP//AAD//wAA//8AAP7/AAD//wAA//8AAP//AAD//wAA//8AAP//AAD//wAA" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" />

(*) Credit: favicon.cc