/folder/http 404 really wierd error?

http 404 gophers are popping up from no where!?

[JAB Creations]

As I've taken to access logs and awstats like a kid takes to sugar I've made massive anti-404 efforts. From May with 13K 404s to last month with 96K 301s I have learned ALOT of the joys and frustrations of Apache.

But now I'm stuck on something I just cant seem to figure out. At the end of a lot of 404s is simply "http". Here is an AL example...

***.**.***.*** - - [02/Sep/2004:21:29:44 +0000] "GET /home/http HTTP/1.0" 301 314 "http://www.mydomain.com/home/home-themes.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

Of course that particular 404 has been set as a redirect. But my question is, how do I stop these wierd buggers from popping up in the first place? Has anyone seen anything similer in the past? I've searched on the big 3 and haven't found squat...

[edited by: jdMorgan at 2:05 pm (utc) on Sep. 17, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed specifics per TOS [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

> GET /home/http HTTP/1.0" 301 314 "http://www.mydomain.com/home/home-themes.php"

Well, this looks a like a request for a page or directory named "http://mydomain.com/home/http"

It appears that the request was referred by your page [mydomain.com...]

So, it appears that the homes-themes.php page has an error on it, most likely a syntax error or an incorrect relative URL reference that cause the user's browser to request a page or directory called "home/http" when a link was clicked.

Jim

[JAB Creations]

...and thats what I looked for to no avail. I've gone over my syntax and haven't figured it out yet.