MSIE Crawler

More information requested

[loanuniverse]

Can anyone tell me what does MSIE Crawler mean in my spider list when I run my log analyzer?

I found this in an old closed thread:

Yes, its the 'Make available offline' option in adding to favorites.
It could also be the Tools¦Synchronize agent, but I've never tried that.

What user action would create the entry?
It is getting to the point that I am getting hundreds of hits per week from this.

[marcs]

Go you mean this : [webmasterworld.com...]

If not, can you get the User Agent or other info?

[wilderness]

The following from the IE help file:

Making pages available for offline viewing
When you make a Web page available offline, you can read its content when your computer is not connected to the Internet. For example, you can view Web pages on your laptop computer when you don't have a network or Internet connection. Or you can read Web pages at home without tying up a phone line.

You can specify how much content you want available, such as just a page, or a page and all its links, and choose how you want to update that content on your computer.

If you just want to view a Web page offline, and you don't need to update the content, you can save the page on your computer. There are several ways you can save the Web page, from just saving the text to saving all of the images and text needed to display that page as it appears on the Web.
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This UA and old one from July 2002 which contains the MSIE:
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; MSIECrawler)"