Why is Chrome searching for my favicon.ico when I serve up a file from ASP.NET MVC?

Question

I have a controller in MVC serving up images from a database.

EDIT: This still happens if I serve up a file over completely standard means in MVC.

Eve

Answer 1

I ran into this problem a while back and got around it by ignoring the specific route by adding

routes.IgnoreRoute("{*favicon}", new { favicon = ".*/favicon\\.ico" });

into the RegisterRoutes method in Global.asax.