On 08/09/2010 11:32 PM, Navkirat Singh 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.
All modern browsers attempt to retrieve this file from any web server
visited; it becomes the website's icon in any shortcut/deskcut, and
appears on the address bar beside the URL.
Short answer: You can safely ignore it.
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