Requests for Favicons may require different handling than requests for other types of requests. I believe having a separate target type for favicons would be sufficient to differentiate these requests. The immediate application is to suppress prompting for authentication when the target of the request is a favicon.
Created attachment 87918 [details] Patch
Comment on attachment 87918 [details] Patch Clearing flags on attachment: 87918 Committed r83102: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/83102>
All reviewed patches have been landed. Closing bug.
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/83102 might have broken Windows Release (Build) and Chromium Win Release