From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 26 3:30:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from infoviaplus.net.ar (adv18.infoviaplus.net.ar [200.9.212.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4FC737B618 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 03:30:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from izelaya@infovia.com.ar) Received: from infovia.com.ar ([209.13.247.126]) by infoviaplus.net.ar (Tid InfoMail Exchanger v2.20) with SMTP id #988280864.058920001; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:27:44 -0300 Message-ID: <3AE7F976.D6F3CAC2@infovia.com.ar> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:33:26 -0300 From: ignacio X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: User-Agent Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Infomail-Id: 988280864.170401AC1E039F.20864 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org When netscape connects to a http server, it's sends something like this: GET / HTTP/1.0 Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386) And when you send a mail, in the headers you can see: X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386) So, 2 questions: 1) How netscape gets info from the O.S. and version (uname perhaps?) 2) How can I hide that info. I remember that wwwoffled has an option to hide the user agent, but i want to know how to prevent netscape to get it. -- Saludos,Ignacio. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message