web - favicon.ico not found error? - Stack Overflow

web - favicon.ico not found error? - Stack Overflow

Here is the explanation:

The issue is, when the browser cache is empty and a user comes in, here is what happens:

• the user requests URL "/". This URL is cached.
• the browser makes a requests to "/favicon.ico". This URL becomes the new URL where to redirect to upon authentication.
• the user posts the login form and is redirected to "/favicon.ico".

To fix this, you need to set "/favicon.ico" as being a non-secured resources:

<intercept-url pattern="/favicon.ico" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS" />  

Taken from: http://blog.idm.fr/2010/09/spring-security-redirecting-to-faviconico.html

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