I have noticed on our raq4r a strange redirect problem. If I click on a hyperlink and the link is dead I would normally figure that a page 404 would come up. However when I test this out I am prompted by the server's secure certificate (self signed) which should appear for https traffic? If I accept the certificate then the "cannot be found" page appears. Why is apache prompting http traffic with the secure certificate and how could I fix this?
The GIF image served up as part of the 404 page resides in a directory that only the admin server can get to. You obviously have an SSL cert associated with the base domain on the RaQ (as you should to protect your admin sessions), thus the https redirect.
You can edit the 404 page HTML (sorry, I don't recall where it actually is - probably under /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/ or possibly in /etc/admserv someplace) and remove the GIF link completely (giving a text-only 404 page), or else copy the GIF to a "regular" directory and change the HTML accordingly.