Simple http server

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Well, this might be a stupid question, but i'm as n00b as i can be, regarding node.

I set up a server, with the code we can find in any node presentation or tutorial...

var http = require('http');

var server = http.createServer(function(req, res){
    console.log('connection from: ' res.socket.remoteAddress);

    res.writeHead(200, ['Content-Type', 'text/plain']);
    res.write('Hello ');
    res.end('World');
});

server.listen('8080');

My question is, why does my server logs my message twice for every request i make from the browser?

you should probably remove the node tag from this question and just leave the node.js tag. See the node tag description for details. — avstrallen, Aug 07 '11 at 14:20

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 14 '11 at 14:01

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Your browser is requesting an img to use in the upper corner favicon.

edited Aug 14 '11 at 14:01

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answered Aug 07 '11 at 13:58

megakorre

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oh, ok... i wouldn't get to the answer alone, in a million years, thanks – André Alçada Padez Aug 07 '11 at 14:01
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try a `console.log(req)` lots of interesting info in there. – generalhenry Aug 07 '11 at 17:20

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 07 '11 at 14:05

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As @megakorre says, it's the default browser behaviour in respect of favicons. It's mentioned in The Node Beginner Book, which is well worth checking out. I too am in the node 'n00b' stage and it helped me a lot.

answered Aug 07 '11 at 14:05

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 07 '11 at 16:05

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I would also recommend trying out Express (http://expressjs.com/). As a beginner, it really helped me get some core concepts together (simple routing like '/users' and '/users/:id') and it gets rid of some annoyances for you like the double favicon.ico request.

answered Aug 07 '11 at 16:05

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thanks, i am going to try Express, of course. but i am trying to get the core basics by my own :) – André Alçada Padez Aug 07 '11 at 17:04

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