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heskez_36146
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Nov 28, 2013

favicon troubles keeps resulting in http 302 redirect

Hi,   We've problems with a website which always asks for the favicon.ico. When it's not to be found the bigip always sends back a 302 redirect and then the session times out. We tried to contro...
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heskez_36146
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Nov 28, 2013

Sure, when we record the session from the client with Fiddler we see a 302 redirect form the bigip , it;s in the header information. What happens is a client logs on opens a PDF in a new tab of the browser and clicks on something in the previous tab. After that nothing happens and the session times out and produces an error page. Within Fiddler we see that a favicon.ico is being requested and is not found by the client. the 302 result is what we get after.