Python Django Errno 54 'Connection reset by peer'
The same behaviour is seen if the favicon is in .png format as opposed to .ico.
Also, contrary to advice seen on other sites, downgrading Python to v3.6 does not solve the problem. screenshot of error w. png favicon
Seems to be a Django issue, It will probably be fixed permanently in a future Django release.
Following https://bugs.python.org/issue27682#msg348302 I made the changes shown:
I then replaced BrokenPipeError with ConnectionAbortedError. This seems to handle the exception.
Update for Django 3: I have the following changes in basehttp.py (rev.1.2.1) to get rid of all the pesky broken pipe error messages:
Line 55: - return issubclass(exc_type, BrokenPipeError)
Line 55: + return issubclass(exc_type, (BrokenPipeError, ConnectionAbortedError, ConnectionResetError))
Line 71: - logger.info("- Broken pipe from %s\n", client_address)
Line 71: + pass
FFS... so dumb. I noticed that it was always resetting after not finding a favicon so I added one... Even though I never explicitly loaded one, django appears to try and load a default one from the root of the project... This doesn't happen for any of the other devs working on the project either. weird. (For completeness) If anyone else stumbles upon this i used favicon io to make a simple text one. Then i loaded it into my html like so:
{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'images/favicon.ico' %}" />
...
Be sure to set your static path correctly in settings.