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MS Web Services Client Protocol
Microsoft Web Services Client
About this crawler
MS Web Services Client Protocol is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MS Web Services Client Protocol in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MS Web Services Client Protocol traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- MS Web Services Client Protocol
- Pattern
MS Web Services Client Protocol- Tags
- http-library
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client Protocol 4.0.30319.17929)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow MS Web Services Client Protocol:
User-agent: MS Web Services Client Protocol
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MS Web Services Client Protocol [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "MS Web Services Client Protocol") {
return 403;
}
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