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#1 2007-01-08 13:43:32

wet

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From: Schoerfling, Austria

Registered: 2005-06-06

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Why does IE 7 add a bogus :// to GET requests?

Since the public release of MS IE 7 I noticed GET requests containing an extra ://, like this (note the GET /article/:// part):

x.x.x.x - - [05/Jan/2007:12:17:01 -0800] "GET /article/:// HTTP/1.1" 200 1615 "http://awasteofwords.com/article/meine-private-google-bombe" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

This happens at every resource ending in a single slash, eg. the site root and section or category links…

Two questions:

• Has anybody else logged such a behaviour?
• WTF are they expecting to find there?

Last edited by wet (2007-01-08 13:44:02)

#2 2007-01-09 13:10:40

DigitalRealm

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From: Greenville, SC

Registered: 2006-07-22

Posts: 139

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Re: Why does IE 7 add a bogus :// to GET requests?

I noticed this recently but was not aware of what was causing it. Interesting…..