diff --git a/users/Profpatsch/whatcd-resolver/src/WhatcdResolver.hs b/users/Profpatsch/whatcd-resolver/src/WhatcdResolver.hs
index a2743a872..49ac03693 100644
--- a/users/Profpatsch/whatcd-resolver/src/WhatcdResolver.hs
+++ b/users/Profpatsch/whatcd-resolver/src/WhatcdResolver.hs
@@ -314,6 +314,12 @@ htmlPageChrome title body =
         <title>{title}</title>
         <meta charset="utf-8">
         <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
+        <!--
+          prevent favicon request, based on answers in
+          https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1321878/how-to-prevent-favicon-ico-requests
+          TODO: create favicon
+        -->
+        <link rel="icon" href="data:,">
         <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-9ndCyUaIbzAi2FUVXJi0CjmCapSmO7SnpJef0486qhLnuZ2cdeRhO02iuK6FUUVM" crossorigin="anonymous">
         <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js" integrity="sha384-geWF76RCwLtnZ8qwWowPQNguL3RmwHVBC9FhGdlKrxdiJJigb/j/68SIy3Te4Bkz" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
         <script src="https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@1.9.2" integrity="sha384-L6OqL9pRWyyFU3+/bjdSri+iIphTN/bvYyM37tICVyOJkWZLpP2vGn6VUEXgzg6h" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>