In article <[email protected]>, Navkirat Singh <[email protected]> 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.
It's not the server's doing, it's the web browser requesting the favicon. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon -- Ned Deily, [email protected] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
