From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 26 3:42:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from elisa.utopianet.net (elisa.utopianet.net [212.210.231.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E90437B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 03:42:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rlucia@iscanet.com) Received: from merlino.iscanet.com (root@[217.59.173.229]) by elisa.utopianet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA13286 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:42:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.1.5] (adsl-156-135.38-151.net24.it [151.38.135.156]) (authenticated) by merlino.iscanet.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3QAfTQ54528; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:41:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rlucia@iscanet.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: rluciamac@imap.iscanet.com (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3AE7F976.D6F3CAC2@infovia.com.ar> References: <3AE7F976.D6F3CAC2@infovia.com.ar> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:41:03 +0200 To: ignacio , From: Rocco Lucia Subject: Re: User-Agent Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 7:33 -0300 26-04-2001, ignacio wrote: >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?) it is hardwired at compile time >2) How can I hide that info. I don't really know, look into js properties maybe... or mess with the binary? :) Ciao, Rocco -- Rocco Lucia - rlucia@iscanet.com Iscanet Internet Services http://elisa.utopianet.net/~rlucia System and Network Admin C6E6 AC9A 1361 FB38 B47A 2792 9FC4 C52F 7A68 4468 Free unices for a free world. Support *BSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message