ASP.NET MVC: Ignore requests to favicon.ico

Thursday, February 26, 2009

One problem I faced when writing my example pet portal on ASP.NET MVC was Google Chrome’s request to favicon.ico that doesn’t exist. IE8 that I use (8.0.7000.0) doesn’t make these blind requests to discover that favicon.ico is not there. Solution to my problem was very simple. Just add the ignore rule for favicon.ico to Global.asax file, in the beginning of RegisterRoutes method:

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4 Comments

I was adding some error logging code to my application last weekend when I kept getting the "File not found" error for favicon.ico. In the end i just created the damn thing to shut it up. But I prefer your solution, thanks!

Trevor - Friday, February 27, 2009 6:07:59 PM

Thank you for the solution, I'm going to add a global error handler for my current MVC project and favicon.ico request is very annoying.

Tiendq - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:32:57 PM

Perfect! This will really help, as I'm using an error handler to email me site errors and continually get emails regarding favicon.ico.

Chris - Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:56:16 AM

Thanks Gunnar, very helpful!

Luke Sampson - Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:37:55 PM

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