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Why do I get a lot of "cache-xxxx.proxy.aol.com" hits in my website logs?

May 8th, 2008 20:48
dman, i can do it, Hossam Hossny, Kalu Ral, http://sturly.com

You might be wondering why.
Well, what you may be referring to is AOL's proxy cache spider that 
retrieves pages from the internet for AOL users. When an AOL user 
clicks a link, it requests it from the AOL proxy cache server. If the 
page isn't in the cache, then AOL sends out a spider to download the 
page, put it into the cache, and finally return the page to the user.
This only happenss when your ISP uses a caching server (i.e Squid).
Cheers,
Hossam Hossny
http://www.Trexle.com