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

For Firefox you could use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/httpfox/. Load a website then press F10 > ... > "open HttpFox in own Window" then look for "image/x-icon"; in the column to the right is the URL.