Strange requests for / _________

requests for /___________

[andgu]

Have anyone seen requsts like these in IIS logs

80 GET /____________________________________ - 404 Mozilla/4.0+compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1)

80 GET /_____________________________________ - 404 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.0;+Windows+98;+DigExt)

these initiall requests are then followed by ordinary/normal request, does anyone know were the underscores ('_') comes from?

[Sinner_G]

Can you see any referrer for those requests? Might be a bad link.

[andgu]

No, there in no referrer on any of the requests and they are coming from a vararity of browsers on different OS.

[Sinner_G]

Interesting. There are many requests that leave no referrer. The one that come to mind right now are:
- directly typing the URL into the URL bar: I can't see why that would insert underscores.
- bookmarks: Do you have a 'bookmark this page' button, which could have an error in the code?
- links from emails: Did you send emails with the link to your site?

Can you see anything in common in the IP adresses that generate these requests?

[pendanticist]

As an aside, yet very simmilar [webmasterworld.com].

Related, or not?

Pendanticist.

[andgu]

Thanx Sinner, it was badly formatted links in emails that caused the problem.