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

It appears for me that Chrome requests a favicon for its own tabs - I kept getting 404s (because my favicon is somwhere else and my pages know it) till I did some tests and realized it was Chrome making direct requests to the favicon file. No real fix except making a rewrite to the real file I guess