Had a site recently that was complaining about bandwidth consumed by request for apple-touch-icon* files as described here:
http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/touch-icons
The customized 404 page on the site was using about 55K bytes for each request. I added the following rewrite rule:
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RewriteRule ^apple-touch-icon(.*) - [R=404,L,NC] |
This results in about 500 bytes per request or a 100 fold reduction.
Of course a nicer solution would be add pretty touch icons to the site!