Configure akamai to ignore favicon errors [on hold]

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Published on 2013-11-02T06:40:28Z Indexed on 2013/11/02 9:56 UTC
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We have hosted our services through akamai and have configured and alert in akamai to notify us of 404 errors. We dont want to serve favicon from our services (as they are rest webservices which are not consumed by humans, hence no point in serving favicons). But whenever thesewebservices are accessed from a browser the browser would send a request for the favicon, which ends up being logged as a 404 and akamai sends us an alert for this.

Is there a way to configure akamai in a way that it understands that favicon 404s should not contribute to the alert?

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