title: favicon.ico results in 404 error in flask app
body: <p>I found a lot of entries in my logfile, which indicate that somebody tried to load /favicon.ico and similar files</p>
  
  <pre><code>GET - /favicon.ico
  GET - /apple-touch-icon.png
  GET - /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I read a lot about this issue online, but I can't get rid of it. Here is what I trued. First I added the following to my head tag</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link rel="shortcut icon" href="/static/favicon/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, even though I provide this information in my header, there seem to be browsers out there which don't care about it and still call /favicon.ico?
  So I thought just putting the ico file at root and be done with it, but it does not seem to work? If I call</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://localhost:5000/static/favicon/favicon.ico
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get to the icon, but </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://localhost:5000/favicon.ico
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does not work (gives 404)? I cleared my cache and tried it with Chrome and Safari, but I get 404 in both cases? I am really at a loss here. If I move the image in the static folder and call </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://localhost:5000/static/favicon.ico
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it works, but the root folder doesn't? What am I missing here?</p>