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sanjib_dwibedy_
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May 03, 2015

How 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 Pragm...
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May 04, 2015

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