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WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service
Windows HTTP auto-proxy discovery service
About this crawler
WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service
- Pattern
WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service- Tags
- http-library
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service/5.1
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service:
User-agent: WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service") {
return 403;
}
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