diff --git a/quickref.php b/quickref.php
index 4343566e8..98e10330d 100644
--- a/quickref.php
+++ b/quickref.php
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ $notfound_enc = urlencode($notfound_sc);
 <?php quickref_table($maybe, false); ?>
 
 <?php
-if(strlen($notfound) > 2):
+// Don't do a web search if the search term contains tp:// since we are seeing a lot of proxy attempts through the 404 handler
+if(strlen($notfound) > 2 && !strstr($notfound,'tp://')):
 $srch_rqst = "/ws.php?profile=$scope&q=".urlencode($notfound)."&lang=$LANG&results=5&start=0&mirror=".trim(substr($MYSITE,7),'/');
 $url = "http://www.php.net".$srch_rqst;
 $data = fetch_contents($url);