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

Its important to put in an ICON link into your masterpage or some browsers will try to find favicon.ico for all directories and not just globally once per done.

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It seems google toolbar is the guilty party judging by my logs (and IE6 of course). They both will make requests for directories other than the root

 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; GoogleToolbar 6.2.1910.1554; Windows 6.0; MSIE 8.0.6001.18828)