doFilter called twice, intended behaviour?

Question

I\'m working through the Java EE servlet tutorial and tried the mood example. I noticed the doFilter is getting called twice, once the servlet call is in the chain and the secon

Answer 1

As @BalusC said, in my case the browser was requesting the favicon.ico by default, so there was an error in the browser's console

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

So I followed this answer and the error dissapeared but then I got the filter to get called twice.

MY SOLUTION

I replaced

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