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Re: Too revealing user-agent field?

From: Song Ma <songmash_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:25:35 +0800

2007/6/15, Bill Mercer <BMercer_at_nccer.org>:
>
> > Any opinions on this here?
> I would not mind a less informative default agent string as long as the
> OPTION to provide the extra detail is still available.

With the FreeBSD's patch it won't affect any output by OPTION such as "-V"
when running cURL on local host, but just cut off the "unnecessary" string
sent out to remote host when using cURL to request HTTP connection.
Received on 2007-06-28