From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 8 7:28:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from sfmailrelay.hamquist.com (sfmailrelay2.hamquist.com [199.108.89.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AF6214D86 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 07:27:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rchilders@hamquist.com) Received: from 172.19.6.48 by sfmailrelay.hamquist.com with SMTP ( WorldSecure Server SMTP Relay(WSS) v3.2 SR1); Tue, 08 Jun 99 07:26:51 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: c29e0ff2-e8b9-11d1-a493-00c04fbbd7d3 Received: from hamquist.com ([172.19.6.230]) by sfmail.hamquist.com ( Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA11C7; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:27:13 -0400 Message-ID: <375D292F.D750BFEB@hamquist.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 07:31:11 -0700 From: "Richard Childers" Organization: hambrecht & quist, llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Unknow User" Cc: Subject: Re: Preventing users from .... References: <375C26BA.3B5414F5@tdnet.com.br> X-WSS-ID: 1B43F7A1459473-01-02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Reilly has a great book on writing your own HTTP-conversant clients using readily-available Perl modules; I believe it is the client that is passing the so-called 'cookies' in the HTTP header. If none of this makes sense, get the book; it's by Clinton Wong, if memory serves me correctly (and it usually does :-). -- richard Richard Childers Senor UNIX Systems Administrator & Chief Bottle Washer Hambrecht & Quist, LLC (415) 439-3838 Unknow User wrote: > > How could i prevent ones from detecting which OS/WEB Server i am using? > There are script (http://www.unix-vs-nt.org) that can do it! > > thank you for your time and cooperation. > > -- > "The box said 'Requires Windows 98, NT, Linux or better' so I > installed FreeBSD." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message