Cannot connect to/Cannot open/Could not fetch errors in PHP

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billjust
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Cannot connect to/Cannot open/Could not fetch errors in PHP

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First- if this is not the right forum or community for this question, please accept my apologies.

I've been getting odd entries in our PHP error logs that look something like this:
[05-Feb-2008 07:51:26] Cannot connect to http://www.ourwebsite.comhttp:80 - (52687668)
[05-Feb-2008 07:51:26] Cannot open http://www.ourwebsite.comhttp://holegir ... ictureofme?
[05-Feb-2008 07:51:26] Could not fetch: http://www.ourwebsite.comhttp://holegir ... ictureofme?

Obviously 'ourwebsite' is different, but the rest is the same. I'm not sure if this is someone hacking our site or just try to relay through it or something, but I don't think it's working for them. Does anyone know how to interpret this and what I could do to stop this traffic?
Thanks in advance!
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Re: Cannot connect to/Cannot open/Could not fetch errors in PHP

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Could you tell me the frequency of these entries. If it's over a 1,000 a day perhaps it's a script or bot runamuck, if it's like 10 times a week it's just some dumbass or script.
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