Hits from AOL domain

what do these represent?

[CuriousWeb]

I had these turn up in my logs over the past few days. Does anyone know what they mean?

acb687ba.ipt.aol.com - - [03/Oct/2002:00:23:45 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7272 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
acb687ba.ipt.aol.com - - [03/Oct/2002:00:38:46 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7272 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
acb7d397.ipt.aol.com - - [02/Oct/2002:23:51:51 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7272 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
acb7d397.ipt.aol.com - - [03/Oct/2002:00:04:06 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7272 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
acb7d397.ipt.aol.com - - [03/Oct/2002:00:05:58 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7272 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
acb7d397.ipt.aol.com - - [03/Oct/2002:00:16:11 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7272 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"

[Brett_Tabke]

AOL uses a proxy cache. It will fetch the page once, then serve additional requests out of it's cache. Those appear to be cache spiders you are seeing above.

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