history.pushState in Chrome make favicon request

Question

code :

var newurl = window.location.protocol + \"//\" + window.location.host + window.location.pathname +\"?\"+ queryStr; 
window.history.pushSt         


        

Answer 1

It looks like a bug in Chromium browsers. See this open issue.

But there seems to be a workaround if you use base64 image as href the request won't occur.

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgo=">

See this question.