Re: E-mail Address in WEB Browser

• To: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
• Subject: Re: E-mail Address in WEB Browser
• From: William Perry <wmperry@spry.com>
• Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 07:47:27 -0800
• Cc: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
• In-Reply-To: <30D11ADE.5792@netscape.com>
• Newsgroups: mcom.list.www-security
• References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951214140111.13376G-100000@claudia.teleport.com> <199512142332.PAA19199@Mjosa.Stanford.EDU> <30D11ADE.5792@netscape.com>
• Reply-to: wmperry@spry.com

Jeff Weinstein writes:
> Christian Mogensen wrote:
> > 
> > >Actually, the "From:" header is an optional part of the HTTP spec that no
> > >browser I know chooses to send, in any fashio, with its requests.  The
> > 
> > I think you'll find that many browsers do send From (Netscape is just one
> > of them) with HTTP requests.  It depends on whether you have set up your
> > e-mail address in the user preferences.
> 
>   Netscape does not send the From: header with HTTP requests.

  What I would like to see is a configurable chunk of things to send or not
send.  Right now I don't think there is any way to turn off the sending of
Referer in any browser but Emacs-W3.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

  Emacs-W3 allows you to configure several levels of privacy.  You can
selectively turn off the sending of the Referer header, the From address,
and the OS section of the User-Agent string.  Would be nice to see a row of
radio buttons in netscape 2.0 to control something similar. :)

-Bill P.

• Re: E-mail Address in WEB Browser
• From: "Robert S. Muhlestein" <robertm@teleport.com>

• Re: E-mail Address in WEB Browser
• From: "Robert S. Muhlestein" <robertm@teleport.com>
• Re: E-mail Address in WEB Browser
• From: Christian Mogensen <mogens@Mjosa.Stanford.EDU>
• Re: E-mail Address in WEB Browser
• From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>

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