I've also heard tale that this is a result of this, or something 
similar.  Usually something in Windows causes the end users computer to 
try and connect to a website using the Network Discovery UPnP 
framework.   Personally, I tend to ignore that.

Regards,

  Tony E.




Charles Jones wrote:
> I've seen similar to below when someone embeds a picture in an MS-Word 
> or PowerPoint document. I'm not sure how it happens, but sometimes when 
> they drag the picture in from a web page, it gets hotlinked to the URL, 
> so when someone opens the document, MS-Office fetches the image instead 
> of having a static copy of it.
>
> -Charles
>   
>> No - it's an apache server (Linux)
>>
>> access_log looks like
>>
>> IP_ADDRESS - - [05/Feb/2008:17:55:56 -0700] "OPTIONS /mccain.jpg
>> HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider
>> Protocol Discovery"
>> IP_ADDRESS - - [05/Feb/2008:17:55:57 -0700] "GET /mccain.jpg HTTP/1.1"
>> 200 56535 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
>> rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11"
>>
>> This was the same ip address - just one second apart. I've never seen
>> that before.
>>   
>>     
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