A client recently launched a site and is seeing thousands of 404’d requests for:
clientsite.com/us/htt
… where the appended “htt” isn’t a valid endpoint. Here’s what I know:
- It’s a WordPress-based site
- Most errors come from some form of MS IE browsers, but there are a couple Firefox offenders
- All errors have a referrer within clientsite.com
- We can’t seem to recreate the request by viewing traffic in an HTTP proxy and browsing the site, with JavaScript on or off.
- I’ve egrepped all files for ‘htt[^p]’, ‘slice’, and ‘substr’ and can’t find anything glaringly wrong
Any thoughts?
Look into your access_log if using apache and look at the referrer. Best place to start looking.