80.177.2.139 - MSIECrawler

Is this legit?

[rooshine]

Hello,

I am new here and I'm hoping some of you knowledgable members can help me out. :)

The MSIECrawler recently hit my site, and its IP was 80.177.2.139. Looking up that IP, it doesn't seem to be from MS. Is somebody spoofing them? Is this something I should worry about? All it has done at this point is ask for my robots.txt.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[WebJoe]

MSIECrawler usually comes if a user choses to make a bookmark/favourite available offline. Internet Explorer then downloads the file and all related to it (links, images, js, css etc.). According to [749 [webmasterworld.com]] it even obeys robots.txt

See also 1010 [webmasterworld.com], 652 [webmasterworld.com] and 2270 [webmasterworld.com], just to name a few

[rooshine]

Thanks for the reply. I had done a search on MSIECrawler before posting, but it was the IP that threw me. Now I think I understand. Thanks.