In article <9f21f146-a43a-4108-962b-4dfa14e43...@gmail.com>, Navkirat Singh <navkir...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having this strange problem. I have programmed a very basic > multiprocessing webserver using low level sockets. Each time the server > receives a request it spawns a new process to handle the request. Now when > through a web browser I type http://localhost:8001/ it automatically creates > two processes: One process to server the '/' path and another one to serve > the '/favicon.ico' path. I have not programmed it to serve the latter. Infact > I dont even know where that name '/favicon.ico' comes from. Any insight into > this weird behavior would be greatly appreciated.
It's not the server's doing, it's the web browser requesting the favicon. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
