Odd Browser in Stats Report

[oldcrow88]

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

 

[angelwatt]

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.

 

[WildCowboy]

It has to do with accessing web resources through Microsoft Office. There's some info on Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery here.

 

[angelwatt]

According to this user-agent site it give the description as:

Server probe for data access operations using MS Frontpage with OPTION header

Though the same site also list the description as:

MS Office 2000 acting as WebDAV client

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.

 

[oldcrow88]

thanks

thank you for your replies

makes sense


Matt