Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:41:03 +0200 From: Rocco Lucia <rlucia@iscanet.com> To: ignacio <izelaya@infovia.com.ar>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: User-Agent Message-ID: <p05100901b70daa6f7eac@[10.0.1.5]> In-Reply-To: <3AE7F976.D6F3CAC2@infovia.com.ar> References: <3AE7F976.D6F3CAC2@infovia.com.ar>
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At 7:33 -0300 26-04-2001, ignacio wrote: >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?) it is hardwired at compile time >2) How can I hide that info. I don't really know, look into js properties maybe... or mess with the binary? :) Ciao, Rocco -- Rocco Lucia - rlucia@iscanet.com Iscanet Internet Services http://elisa.utopianet.net/~rlucia System and Network Admin C6E6 AC9A 1361 FB38 B47A 2792 9FC4 C52F 7A68 4468 Free unices for a free world. Support *BSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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