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How does an internet browser get the logo/favicon of a website? I run a website and it'll be useful if I know how exactly this happens.

For example, an HTTP request to somewhere might return the value but I'm interested in knowing how this happens in details.

Like how it gets the image, how it implements it. How can I manipulate it?

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I believe the 'technical' term for it is a favicon

It's traditionally an .ico file that's 16x16 pixels, and placed at the root of your website directory

With modern browsers. PNGs and GIFs are very widely supported and there's other formats supported too. You can also embed these as tags.

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