However, I did catch an entry in the access log where my computer did it, and it was connected to VPN at that time.Ģ. It was theorized that this occurred when people are working from home and not connected to VPN.
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But it appears that might not be a long term solution, as it seems that also prevents people from viewing the website in their browsers.Īny ideas on how to figure out exactly what is causing this (and how to stop it)? Or something I can specifically ask of the IT department?ġa. Microsoft has discontinued the WebDAV extension for IIS and this download is no longer available. Install this extension or view additional downloads The WebDAV extension for IIS has been retired.
I have implemented rules in ModSecurity to block traffic from these user agents. Windows This is a Microsoft Supported Download. The sheer amount of requests has been problematic in terms of taking up server resources. IIS for Windows XP/Server 2003/Server 2008/Vista/7/Server 2008 R2/8/Server 2012: The authentication methods available for the server are Anonymous, Basic, or. (But it uses the same domain name the web server is set up as subdomain "www.") (The requests have path names that are the same as shared drive paths.) However, the company shared drive is on a completely different server than the web server. I see a lot of traffic in the access logs coming from company computers, with user agent string "Microsoft-WebDAV-Minidir" or "DavClint." They appear to be requesting files from the company shared drive. We have a VPS server (Linux) where we run our website. I see a lot of traffic in the access logs coming from company computers, with user agent string 'Microsoft-WebDAV-Minidir' or 'DavClint.' They appear to be requesting files from the company shared drive. I am pretty stumped about this issue, and hope someone can point me in a good direction. We have a VPS server (Linux) where we run our website. I am responsible for managing a website at my workplace.