From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 17 14:49:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00654 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beatrice.rutgers.edu (beatrice.rutgers.edu [165.230.209.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00647 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu) Received: (from easmith@localhost) by beatrice.rutgers.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id RAA16177; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:47:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Allen Smith" Message-Id: <9807171747.ZM16175@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:47:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: Robert Watson "Re: netscape communicator 4.5 preview 1 is released ~50 minutes ago" (Jul 17, 4:05pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: Robert Watson Subject: Re: netscape communicator 4.5 preview 1 is released ~50 minutes ago Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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