How can I retrieve the favicon of a website?

Question

I want to list featured websites on my website and I thought it would be cool to honor and use their favicon. How do I get it from the domain for an arbitrary URL in either JSP

Answer 1

• Using IE, bookmark the site

• Drag the shortcut from your bookmarks menu onto your desktop

• Open the resulting .URL using a (real) text editor

• There will be a line in the file for IconFile, which will point to the favicon file on the web server

• Browse to the file... viola!