How do I render favicons in Lithium?

How would I render favicons in Lithium?

Right now I have this in my layouts:

<?php echo $this->html->link('Icon', null, array('type' => 'icon')); ?>

However, the favicon doesn't show up. Attempting to view the favicon resource via Chrome Inspector shows me a broken image.

I tried downloading the image via HTTP and the image is empty:

$ wget http://example.org/favicon.ico
--2012-05-17 00:13:58--  http://example.org/favicon.ico
Resolving example.org... xx.xx.xx.xxx
Connecting to example.org|xx.xx.xx.xxx|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 0 [image/x-icon]
Saving to: `favicon.ico'

    [ <=>                                                                   ] 0           --.-K/s   in 0s      

2012-05-17 00:13:59 (0.00 B/s) - `favicon.ico' saved [0/0]

However, if I scp the image to my local disk and view it, I can view the proper favicon image in the correct format.

Do I have to setup a custom media type or something? If so, how would I do that for a resource such as an image (favicon)? I'm assuming this is not necessary and that rendering a favicon is possible, by default.

EDIT I forgot to mention that I can view the favicon via HTTP when I view it locally (development environment) but when I try to view it remotely (production environment), the favicon doesn't render as it should.

EDIT 2 My rewrite rules:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !favicon.ico$
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Thanks.

EDIT 3 I've set up a test Lithium app: http://dev.koobi.co/favicon/

The only thing I changed was the layout file and config/bootstrap/libraries.php

As you can see, the icon file doesn't load for this either.

Solution

Turns out this was an issue with Hostgator. Lithium was working perfectly. Apparently, Hostgators Apache rules don't allow favicons to be rendered dynamically.