Outlook 2007 RSS User-Agent

[Ocean10000]

Since my RSS reader of choice since shutdown on September 28 (NewGator Inbox [webmasterworld.com] Outlook plugin). I been migrating my feeds over to the internal outlook RSS feed manager.

So after looking at my own log files trying to figure out why outlook was not pulling a private feed. I figure out it did not use the standard IE RSS User-Agent [msdn.microsoft.com] as I expected it would (and previously white listed).

So for all those people wondering what this User-Agent is from, it is from Outlooks internal feed reader.

OutlookConnector/1.9 (TmstmpExt; MSOffice 12)

I have a feeling that this User-Agent might be used by outlook for more then RSS feed gathering, but have no other details on it as of yet.

[keyplyr]

MSOffice is also present in UA string when the user attempts to capture/copy web pages and save to their machine via Microsoft Office publishing tool, hence I block it categorically.

I don't offer an RSS feed and I'm guessing that my site is rarely linked from anyone's feed with the exception of those reading Twitter with a feed reader.

From trend data gathered from logs, I've only seen MSOffice present in capture/copy attempts, but I'll keep a look-out, thanks for the heads-up Ocean10000.