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Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider
Microsoft WebDAV client
About this crawler
Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider
- Pattern
Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider- Tags
- http-library
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider Cache Manager
Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV
Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider Protocol Discovery
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider:
User-agent: Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider") {
return 403;
}
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