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Microsoft URL Control
Microsoft URL Control library
About this crawler
Microsoft URL Control is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Microsoft URL Control in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Microsoft URL Control traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- Microsoft URL Control
- Pattern
Microsoft URL Control- Tags
- http-library
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Microsoft URL Control - 6.01.9782
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Microsoft URL Control:
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Microsoft URL Control [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Microsoft URL Control") {
return 403;
}
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