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samstep
May 04, 2015Cirrocumulus
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