[RESOLVED] Getting the Favicon of a website

Hey guys!

Can you please see my code and tell me what's wrong in it? I can't seem to find the problem:

Code:

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public static Image favicon(Uri Url)
        {
            try
            {
                Uri websiteuri = new Uri(Url.Host);
                string faviconurl = "http://" + websiteuri + "/favicon.ico";

                WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(faviconurl);

                WebResponse res = req.GetResponse();

                Stream ico = res.GetResponseStream();

                return Image.FromStream(ico);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return Properties.Resources.LargeGlobe;
            }
        }

        private void webBrowser1_Navigated(object sender, WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs e)
        {
            pictureBox5.Image = favicon(webBrowser1.Url);

            Form1.tabControl1.SelectedTab.Text = webBrowser1.DocumentTitle;
        }

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The code above returns the exception picture, but it doesn't get the favicon of the website.

Need it as soon as possible.

Thanks guys!

The url of the favicon isn't always www.host.com/favicon.ico. You should get the default page (index.html) from the host and something like:

Code:

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<link href="images/foo.ico" rel="shortcut icon" />

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@Lightning Thanks for the reply.

I understand that all of the favicons are not located in '/favicon.ico' but Google's favicon is located there. I don't know why its not working there.

Please Help!

@Lightning Thanks for the reply.

I understand that all of the favicons are not located in '/favicon.ico' but Google's favicon is located there. I don't know why its not working there.

Please Help!

sorry for the double post. my internet wasn't working properly.

Ok. So if I want to try to get the <link href="images/foo.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /> tag, then how do I do it?

Is there a website to get this from?

Thanks for your help guys.

I got the code off of a tutorial I finally found on Google and I just copied the code from there.

It appears that I just had to change this:

Code:

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public static Image favicon(Uri url)

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into this:

Code:

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public static Image favicon(String url)

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Here's the full code:

Code:

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public static Image favicon(String url)
        {
            Uri url = new Uri(u);
            String iconurl = "http://" + url.Host + "/favicon.ico";

            WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(iconurl);
            try
            {
                WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

                Stream s = response.GetResponseStream();
                return Image.FromStream(s);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return Properties.Resources.LargeGlobe;
            }
        }

        private void webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
        {
            pictureBox5.Image = favicon(webBrowser1.Url.ToString());
        }

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Thanks again for the help guys!