Issue with http showing up twice in a url ex. http://www.cutcaster.com/upload/pending/http://www.cutcaster.com/index.ph

[eluser]johngrif[/eluser]
Excuse me for being naive but I have a question I hope someone can help me with.

I am not sure if these two incidents are related but a few days ago we used some software to create a sitemap (http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/). After it ran I noticed in google analytics that there were a few pages that were being accessed a lot that had weird urls and were coming from all over the internet. See below.

http://www.cutcaster.com/upload/pending/.../index.php

http://www.cutcaster.com/http://www.cutc.../index.php

I can't tell if this is causing memory leak and looping or if this is even a problem?

So why is it happening? What is it called? Is there a good way to fix it? Should I be concerned?

I saw this URL in my google analytics. Any idea why (  /http://www.cutcaster.com/index.php  it has a / before it begins )  would be placed at the end of www.cutcaster.com/   like this http://www.cutcaster.com/http://www.cutc.../index.php

If you have any questions i am happy to answer them.
Thank you so much.

[eluser]danmontgomery[/eluser]
[quote author="johngrif" date="1264034920"]Excuse me for being naive but I have a question I hope someone can help me with.

I am not sure if these two incidents are related but a few days ago we used some software to create a sitemap (http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/). After it ran I noticed in google analytics that there were a few pages that were being accessed a lot that had weird urls and were coming from all over the internet. See below.

http://www.cutcaster.com/upload/pending/.../index.php

http://www.cutcaster.com/http://www.cutc.../index.php

I can't tell if this is causing memory leak and looping or if this is even a problem?

So why is it happening? What is it called? Is there a good way to fix it? Should I be concerned?

I saw this URL in my google analytics. Any idea why (  /http://www.cutcaster.com/index.php  it has a / before it begins )  would be placed at the end of www.cutcaster.com/   like this http://www.cutcaster.com/http://www.cutc.../index.php

If you have any questions i am happy to answer them.
Thank you so much.[/quote]

Most likely a malformed sitemap.

[eluser]johngrif[/eluser]
so maybe i should reach out to the xml sitemap people..

could it be anything else? has anyone seen that before.

I got some errors back from the sitemap generator that showed url's looping and causing 404s like this example


http://www.cutcaster.com/https://www.cut...m/register

http://www.cutcaster.com/https://www.cut...rCorporate

Any ideas? Cheers