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marlon
marlon

Reputation: 99

How to get rid of favicon.ico in flask restful api?

I have a simple restful service that has something strange. The code is below:

from flask import Flask, make_response
from flask_restful import Resource, Api, fields
from get_response_demo import generate_rest_str
import dia_logging

logger = dia_logging.my_logger("api_rest", "demo.log")

app = Flask(__name__)
api = Api(app)

resource_fields = {
    'messages': fields.String,
    'jsons': fields.String,
}

class RestAPI(Resource):
    def get(self, sentence):

        dia_result = generate_rest_str(sentence)
        logger.info(dia_result)

        response = make_response(str(dia_result))
        response.mimetype = 'application/json'
        return response

api.add_resource(RestAPI, '/<string:sentence>')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=False, use_reloader=False, host='127.0.0.1', port=4000)

And the way I make a request to the service: http://127.0.0.1:4000/sentence=hello

The restful service is hosted on a Ubuntu machine. On my Mac I didn't observed the problem. And the problem is that, whenever I tested a request to the service, in addition to process the real input sent by the parameter 'sentence', and each time it also processes:

INFO:get_response_demo:restful, sentence:favicon.ico

So it processes twice for only one request, and the 'favicon.ico' was processed repeatedly.

How to avoid this? I am new to flask.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3584

Answers (1)

Dave W. Smith
Dave W. Smith

Reputation: 24966

You have at least three options

  1. Add a specific @app.route('/favicon.ico') before the api.add_resource()

  2. If you're running your API behind nginx or Apache, special-case favicon.ico in the web server config, so that your Flask code never sees the request

  3. Arrange to serve API calls from /api/...

The latter future-proofs you if you want to add some admin/monitoring capabilities via root-level URLs. You can use #2 and #3 together.

Upvotes: 2

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