Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:46:24 -0700 From: "Renaud Waldura" <renaud@waldura.org> To: "ignacio" <izelaya@infovia.com.ar> Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: User-Agent Message-ID: <006501c0ce70$6e383410$2301010a@zerog.int> References: <3AE7F976.D6F3CAC2@infovia.com.ar>
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> 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" <izelaya@infovia.com.ar> To: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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