[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11412: Discard requests for favicon.ico

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#11412: Discard requests for favicon.ico
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy  |       Owner:     
     Type:  defect (bug)       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  3.0
Component:  Performance        |     Version:  2.9
 Severity:  normal             |    Keywords:     
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 WP should not load in its entirety on favicon.ico requests, unless a
 plugin allows it to.

 We should add the needed RewriteCond to the .htaccess statements. Or at
 the very least catch that sort of request early on (while we parse the
 request, for instance), apply filters in case a plugin wants to step in,
 and bail accordingly.

 As things stand, every page load on a site without a favicon generates a
 404 error that gets logged -- and on each of these, WP loads in its
 entirety, and hopelessly queries the database in an effort to canonically
 redirect to something that might work.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11412>
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