Back in January, I blogged about how Googlebot requested CSS and JS files. Ever since the news broke (to much fanfare), this front of SEO has been awfully quiet.

Well, GBot is at it again. This time it requested just a JS file and followed a 302 redirect to get it. The JS is embdeded into the page with this code:

The request for filename.js 302 forwards to another location which returns a 404, which I log. Yes, it's a trap designed to see who requests JS files and who doesn't (as part of my on-going bot research documented the past few posts).

The hit details are:

• Remote: crawl-66-249-70-178.googlebot.com (66.249.70.178)
• Using HTTP/1.1 GET
• UA: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

The second request (the one GETting the URL in the 302 forwarding) came 1 second after the first request with identical hit settings.

And that's about it from me. Anyone else seeing similar hits?