server socket receives 2 http requests when I send from chrome and receives one when I send from firefox

Question

I wrote a simple server using socket API in C under linux which listens at port 80 on localhost. Now when I send a request from the browser google chrome to the program it r

Answer 1

Can you post the source of your server? My guess is that Chrome simply opens a socket against your server to optimize future requests to the same page, but does not send any command on it.