RE: anonymize_headers

From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:19:23 +0100

> From: Glenn Chisholm [SMTP:glenn@ircache.net]
>
> As stated in the FAQ you need to turn off X-Forwarded-For to get rid of
> the IP address.
>
> To stop your browser information being passed you need to deny User-Agent.
> A better option is just to use the fake_user_agent option.
>
        Both of these can get you locked out of some sites, so you
        will have to balance this against the privacy improvement.
        (The main reason for checking User Agent tends to be to
        prevent crawling of the site, or at least crawling by
        badly behaved crawlers.)
Received on Tue Aug 31 1999 - 06:36:40 MDT

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