So I basically started this web dev course by fullstackopen and in one of the steps it says that once you open the Developer Console, and refresh the tab, 2 requests shall appear (one HTTP GET request and the another for an image to be retrieved from the server, but whenever I refresh I get this unknown request called "favicon.ico" every time. For the next steps also the same is happening. While the courses explains all the other requests made, it does not even talk about this one because this does not appear in their examples. So I just wanted to know why I am getting this random request. first one is what the network tab should have displayed
second image shows what I get when I follow the instructions of the course
As Akki mentioned, this is the icon you would see on a tab in the browser. Like the StackOverflow icon for this page.
You are getting a status 200 response, so it does find it in your root
