Question

I am developing an web app with Laravel and I encountered this “strange” behavior. Some controller actions are called twice. I know so because on my logs I see (for one page refresh) two full sets of entries. My controller action starts like this:

public function action_edit($rid=-1) {
    // Calc Input
    $id  = Input::get('id', $rid);
    Log::TWICE("?? {$id} - {$rid}");

where $rid is the object id to edit as requested by the url, however if I get an id in my Input, then I use this id instead. So when I call my controller via a url like:

…/mycontroller/edit/1

I get TWO entries in my log file:

2013-02-07 00:49:15 TWICE - ?? 1 - 1
2013-02-07 00:49:16 TWICE - ?? img - img

The first one is the normal that I should see, however the second one I don’t understand where it is coming from. I checked using the Chrome’s developer tools (both network tab and console tab) but there is no sign of the second request!! I initially thought that I might try to use some resource with a relative url of img or ../img but I found no clue. Of course img is the name of my images folder on my template but there is nowhere in my code a relative url img by itself…

Do you have any suggestions regarding this issue? Where else in my code should I examine/check? What else could trigger the second call?

NOTE: I am using the following call at some point on my code but the referenced action is ‘show’ not ‘edit’!!

Laravel\Routing\Controller::call($controller.’@show’, …

Thank you in advance!

Pan

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Answer 1

This is probably the browser trying to request a Favicon.

Try with curl and you most likely won’t see the request.