Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:47:35 -0400 From: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape communicator 4.5 preview 1 is released ~50 minutes ago Message-ID: <9807171747.ZM16175@beatrice.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> "Re: netscape communicator 4.5 preview 1 is released ~50 minutes ago" (Jul 17, 4:05pm) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980717160157.22920C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Jul 17, 4:05pm, Robert Watson (possibly) wrote: > > We've found that 4.5pr1 has a nasty tendancy to leak information about > page visits to the Netscape servers -- that is, the "Smart Browsing" > feature. If you so much as click the button up there to pull down the > menu, the URL for the page you are currently visiting is sent to the > Netscape web servers. At TIS, we're concerned as this could easily leak > data about our internal server structure to Netscape. It also gives them > a very large marketing advantage, etc. We are advising our users to turn > it off, and are working on making our firewall block such requests. > > It seems like a neat feature for the un-privacy-concerned end user, but > really has no place in our environment. Agreed. What HTTP header does it use? Thanks, -Allen -- Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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