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MS Office UA?

         

keyplyr

5:41 am on Feb 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

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What is the UA used by those who attempt to download webpages with Microsoft Office?

I had been using this to block:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MS.*Office [NC]

But it is also blocking those who have Office Depot, Inc. in their UA string. Thanks.

bull

11:45 am on Feb 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Trying to open localhost/start.html with Apache running gives this:

- - [01/Feb/2004:12:47:50 +0100] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 403 1310 "-" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider Cache Manager"
- - [01/Feb/2004:12:47:54 +0100] "GET /_vti_inf.html HTTP/1.1" 403 1310 "-" "Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 4.0)"
- - [01/Feb/2004:12:47:55 +0100] "POST /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "MSFrontPage/4.0"
- - [01/Feb/2004:12:47:56 +0100] "OPTIONS /start.html HTTP/1.1" 403 1310 "-" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1"
- - [01/Feb/2004:12:47:56 +0100] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 403 1310 "-" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1"
- - [01/Feb/2004:12:47:57 +0100] "GET /start.html HTTP/1.1" 200 2265 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
- - [01/Feb/2004:12:48:08 +0100] "GET /start.html HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
- - [01/Feb/2004:12:48:08 +0100] "GET /someimg.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 169 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
- - [01/Feb/2004:12:48:08 +0100] "GET /img/pfrechts.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 79 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
- - [01/Feb/2004:12:48:08 +0100] "GET /img/english.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 124 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"

So MS Word 9 first does this multiple-UA options etc. carp and is then using the normal installed IE UA.