Odd Browser in Stats Report

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  1. oldcrow88, Dec 5, 2008

    oldcrow88 macrumors newbie

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    hi there

    when i normally look at my webstats, they are all pretty in my front end. well i recently did a full site backup and was leafing through the raw stats logs. it doesn't just show the top 10 from each section of the report.

    does any one know what the browser in bold is? is it even a browser?
    i did a search for "sdiscovery 2" and nothing came up.

    so it does show up in everyone's awstats. i checked some of my other sites that i administer and it shows up

    # Browser ID - Hits
    BEGIN_BROWSER 32
    msie6.0 1059
    msie5.01 1
    netscape4.61 1
    bonecho 101
    firefox1.5.0.12 12
    firefox2.0.0.1 14
    firefox3.0 928
    opera 1
    libwww 6
    firefox2.0.0.15 389
    firefox3.0.1 10248
    curl 1
    netscape7.2 11
    firefox2.0.0.12 12
    firefox2.0.0.6 9
    msie5.5 3
    lotus\-notes 6
    firefox1.0.5 12
    firefox2.0.0.11 5
    firefox2.0.0.14 43
    mozilla 224
    netscape7.1 7
    firefox2.0.0.3 9
    msie7.0 7204
    netscape4.0 2
    microsoft\sdata\saccess\sinternet\spublishing\sprovider\sprotocol\sdiscovery 2
    firefox2.0.0.4 24
    msie5.0 1
    firefox2.0.0.16 667
    msie 3
    Unknown 7875
    safari 18837
    END_BROWSER
     
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  2. angelwatt, Dec 5, 2008

    angelwatt Moderator emeritus

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    Yea, I did some quick searching and could only pull up AWStats pages listing it in their logs, no actual discussions about it. So, it's hard to say for certain what it is. Couldn't find anything at Microsoft's web site either, but since it is within AWStats code, it must be a real browser agent, whatever it may do. Nothing I'd worry about.
     
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  3. WildCowboy, Dec 5, 2008

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    It has to do with accessing web resources through Microsoft Office. There's some info on Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery here.
     
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  4. angelwatt, Dec 5, 2008

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    According to this user-agent site it give the description as:
    Though the same site also list the description as:
    which seems to match what WildCowboy's post seems to match with on some level.

    And this page say it's a bot.

    I found the above pages by search for that browser agent, but replacing the /s parts with just a space and found a lot, but it may also mean the results are not as relevant.
     
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  5. oldcrow88, Dec 5, 2008

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    thanks

    thank you for your replies

    makes sense


    Matt
     
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