Log files show 404 erros - like partial filenames

[Frank_Rizzo]

I wrote an new page called make_widgets_2.html and saved it in the widgets/ directory

i.e. www.mysite.co.uk/widgets/make_widgets_2.html

But the log files are showing various 404 errors thus:

"GET /widgets/make_widgets_2. HTTP/1.1"
"GET /widgets//make-widgets-2htm"
"GET /widgets/make_widgets_2.html%2anothersite.com/ HTTP/.1"
"GET /widgets/make_widgets_2.html%http://www.mysite.co.uk/widgets/make_widgets_2.html HTTP/1.0"
"GET /widgets/make_widgets HTTP/1.1"

What the heck is going on here? I can understand in the second line that maybe a user is typing in - instead of _ but I got dozens of similar stuff to the rest where it seems the .html is dropped off. Is this corruption or something?

[dcheney]

I assume there was no referring page for any of the errors. The only thing I can think of is maybe somewhere the URL appeared in print.

[Brett_Tabke]

Using standard hrefs?

Run it through a validator and look for errors.

[Frank_Rizzo]

No referring page for the errors.

Validator doesnt throw up any errors.

what is strange is that its intermittent. Had about 300 successfull views of the page, a dozen or so with the 404 errors.

[Brett_Tabke]

Someone probably bookmarked or linked to you by typing in the url. They typed it wrong.