I have a very strange situation that I've been tracking for some  
months now.

This may or may not be a rails issue. The symptoms don't feel like it,  
so I guess I'm appealing to my rails colleagues to lend me their  
thoughts.



Throughout the day, HomeStars.com will get a number of invalid  
requests(< 50) such as :

/companies/1199238-action-assembly/forums - is not valid

/companies/1199238-action-assembly - is valid
/forums - is valid

/forums is linked to in the menu on each page (so is /sessions/new  
which also exhibits the same behaviour)

All I can surmise is that something is hitting the forums relative url  
thinking it's relative, but it's an absolute reference.

<a href="/forums">Forum</a>

So this feels like either a bug in a scraper, or a page pre-loader  
(plugin that visits links on a page to pre-load them).

I see enough of them, with differing user agents, and vastly different  
IPs, and not enough requests to not feel like a scraper.

So I'm left with thinking it's a browser plugin - pre-loading.

any thoughts or pointers are appreciated.

thank you.
Jodi
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