From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 26 9:46:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ebola.biohz.net (ebola.biohz.net [206.80.1.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E389537B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from renaud@waldura.org) Received: from renaud (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.biohz.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5739E11527C; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <006501c0ce70$6e383410$2301010a@zerog.int> From: "Renaud Waldura" To: "ignacio" Cc: References: <3AE7F976.D6F3CAC2@infovia.com.ar> Subject: Re: User-Agent Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:46:24 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 2) How can I hide that info. An easy way to do so would be by having your browser go through an anonymizing proxy. Bonus: get one that strips off banner ads, controls cookies, etc. E.g. the junkbuster (in ports). Or you could patch the binary directly; M-x binary-overwrite-mode in Emacs. The real question is "why do you want to do that?" --Renaud ----- Original Message ----- From: "ignacio" To: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:33 AM Subject: User-Agent > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message