[RESOLVED] Getting the Favicon of a website

[rqmok]

Hey guys!

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

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;
        }

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!

[Lightning]

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:

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

[rqmok]

@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!

[rqmok]

@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!

[rqmok]

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

[rqmok]

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?

[rqmok]

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:

public static Image favicon(Uri url)

into this:

public static Image favicon(String url)

Here's the full code:

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());
        }

Thanks again for the help guys!