Who is Fetch+API+Request?

It's going to every page on my site

[apays14]

Who does Fetch+API+Request belong to? I just checked my raw logs and found it everywhere.

Thanks

[apays14]

Does anyone know who or what this is?

[oilman]

do you have an IP address to go along with that description?

btw - welcome to WebmasterWorld :)

[dhdweb]

Have a look here:
[webmasterworld.com...]
or just Google [google.com] it!

[apays14]

Thanks for the response.

The IP is 66.244.208.194

Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.5;+Windows+NT+5.0)+Fetch+API+Request -

On saturday it hit all my pages images and followed through on all my out going links to my affiliates site. Sunday just a few pages and today all pages again.

Thanks in advance.

[Dreamquick]

If its any help the general conclusion about the Fetch API Request was that it was a part of a product called ISA Server which features among other things a proxy server (the Acceleration part of Internet Security and Acceleration Server) - there are also some suggestions that this is the proxy cache being refreshed.

[psychedelix.com...]

For myself at least the Fetch API Request never reads robots.txt, they don't go away if you generate 403 and each example I attempt to track back never seems to lead to any obvious reason why they would need to spider the page.

The ISA Server theory is supported by the geographically distributed nature of the requests as well as the request sources (nearly always non-isp corporate owned), not to mention that if you view the raw request most of them go through machines whose names include "ISA".

- Tony

[apays14]

Thanks Tony.