server socket receives 2 http requests when I send from chrome and receives one when I send from firefox

Question

I wrote a simple server using socket API in C under linux which listens at port 80 on localhost. Now when I send a request from the browser google chrome to the program it r

Answer 1

I am currently writing small async web server on Mono/.NET 4.0 and noticed the same thing. Chrome opens two TCP connection, but only one is used for communication. There is no data send using that socket. Even after you stop loading webpage from browser Chrome still keeps connection alive for quite some time.

I must agree with @RomanK, as it's probably for optimizations or it's a bug, but it's not for favicon as there is not data transfered throw that connection.