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NimbostratusHow someone can use User-Agent as Libre office?
Request PROPFIND /content/dam/xxx/Quote-and-buy/pr-norton-footer-66x108.gif HTTP/1.1 Connection: TE TE: trailers Host: www.xxxxxxx.com Depth: 0 Content-Length: 237 Content-Type: application/xml Pragma: no-cache User-Agent: LibreOffice X-Forwarded-For: 95.144.131.13 X-Forwarded-Proto: https Response HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 09:51:40 GMT Server: Apache Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 403 Forbidden
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /content/dam/xxx/Quote-and-buy/pr-norton-footer-66x108.gif on this server.
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samstepCirrocumulus
Hi Sanjib,
LibreOffice is known for sending lots of PROPFIND method requests (which are used by WebDAV protocol).
This can happen if someone is using LibreOffice to open a URL on your website - for example your webpage might have a link to a MS Word .DOC document. If someone who is using LibreOffice clicks on this document they will open it using LibreOffice and you will see "LibreOffice" as a User-Agent.
http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/59211/what-is-http-method-propfind-used-for
Note that similarly MS Office is known for doing the same thing (sending PROPFIND requests uing "Microsoft Office" or "Microsoft Office WebDAV" user-agent).
Hope this helps,
Sam
- samstep
Dharani, what are you trying to protect with ASM? SharePoint? Then using the built-in Application-Ready SharePoint policy template is best.
If it is not Sharepoint I still recommend you create a sample policy (not associated with any Virtual Server) based on SharePoint 2010 and study how it implements the PROPFIND method and the XML profile...
Hope this helps,
Sam
sanjib_dwibedy_Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to handle below mentioned XML / Openoffice request on ASM?
Is there any link or tool to learn how to generate request using Open office?
Request
PROPFIND /xxxxxxxx HTTP/1.1 Host: www.XXXXXXXX.com User-Agent: OpenOffice/4.1.1 Accept-Encoding: gzip Depth: 0 Content-Type: application/xml Content-Length: 230 X-Forwarded-For: 87.115.67.75
