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LunchMarble
LunchMarble

Reputation: 5141

Why is there an additional "favicon.ico" HTTP request?

Using the code from this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9744961/514773

I've noticed that any time I enter: http://localhost:8080 into my browser the output result is:

http://localhost:8080/

http://localhost:8080/favicon.ico

Subsequent requests print the same thing. This to me looks like I am getting two requests for price of one. Is this normal? (This is not my desired behavior.)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5410

Answers (2)

siddhusingh
siddhusingh

Reputation: 1868

How to suppress it though and where in case of jersey ? Have seen the solution as :

<intercept-url pattern="/favicon.ico" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS" />

Upvotes: 0

Josh Earl
Josh Earl

Reputation: 18351

Browsers automatically request the favicon.ico file by default when you issue a request for a web page. The favicon.ico file is the small icon that appears in the URL bar of your browser.

Upvotes: 9

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