Re: [squid-users] Re: Logging/Blocking URLs with question marks ?

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:12:08 +0100

> >>>so for example searches on google do not show the full URL.
> >
> >On 18.03.08 13:07, RW wrote:
> >>I don't know much about 2.5 but in up-to-date versions, logging of query
> >>urls is governed by "strip_query_terms". By default it's on to avoid
> >>logging things like session IDs.
> >
> >it's called privacy :)

On 20.03.08 00:52, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> It's called philanthropy: protecting idiots against themselves at ones
> own cost.
>
> No webmaster with any serious intentions of privacy publishes the
> SESSION-IDs in visible URI. The sensible ones use session cookies,
> nicely hidden from script-kiddies eyes, easily removed by
> security-conscious users, and not getting in the way of smart users
> direct-linking.

there are more things in GET strings than just session ID's...

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