Receiving requests where absolute URL on page are morphed to relative URLs

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Published on 2011-03-11T00:02:54Z Indexed on 2011/03/11 0:19 UTC
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In our web pages, we have a hyperlink with an href to an absolute URL:

https://some.other.host.com/blah.aspx?var1=val1&var2=val2

For some reason, in our logs, we see a lot of requests to URLs of this format:

http://our.site.com/https:/some.other.host.com/blah.aspx?var1=val1&var2=val2

We don't have any JavaScript that would request that URL; it only appears inside of a hyperlink. Is there some sort of known bot, browser plugin, bug, etc. that could be responsible for these requests being made?

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