Article View: comp.os.os2.misc
Article #17504Re: OS/2
From: summer
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 00:00
23 lines
2241 bytes
2241 bytes
In <878601255snz@dsl.co.uk>, bhk@dsl.co.uk (Brian {Hamilton Kelly}) writes:
]Just shows how misleading server logs can be: I've visited your site
](many times; it's really pretty great [with certain caveats]) from my
]work address, using webex 1.2 under Warp 4. You *may* have missed it
]because at work I'm behind a Gauntlet firewall, which, I suspect,
]suppresses the transfer of this sort of gratuitous breach of privacy...
Certainly I didn't read ALL the log. It's quite voluminous.
I don't see that the browser info constitutes a breach of privacy: it's
not identifying the caller. The remote IP address is nearer to doing
that, and that's essential.
The browser info is used by a lot of CGI (some of mine included) to decude
how to format responses. Some of the recent web servers can choose
html based on the browser info too.
Cheers
John Summerfield
OS/2 support at http://www.ami.com.au/os2/
Configuration, networking, searchable index to IBM ftp sites
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<c1.01.2J9m5P$1CJ@maximus.os2.ami.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<344CFD22.5D17F764@mistralk.co.uk> <344D1A6B.7F40B5EA@mistralk.co.uk> <345411FA.5126@telusplanet.net> <3454336a$1$woehfu$mr2ice@news.aros.net> <c1.01.2J8XCq$1C9@maximus.os2.ami.com> <878601255snz@dsl.co.uk>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,1bc29dceb6f1e76c X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: fabaa,1bc29dceb6f1e76c X-Google-Attributes: gidfabaa,public X-Google-Thread: f4337,1bc29dceb6f1e76c X-Google-Attributes: gidf4337,public X-Google-Thread: 10f27c,1bc29dceb6f1e76c X-Google-Attributes: gid10f27c,public X-Google-Thread: 11b872,1bc29dceb6f1e76c X-Google-Attributes: gid11b872,public X-Google-Thread: 10fb18,1bc29dceb6f1e76c X-Google-Attributes: gid10fb18,public X-Google-Thread: 104dc3,1bc29dceb6f1e76c X-Google-Attributes: gid104dc3,public From: summer@iinet.net.au Subject: Re: OS/2 Date: 1997/11/05 Message-ID: <c1.01.2J9m5P$1CJ@maximus.os2.ami.com> X-Deja-AN: 287434801 Sender: summer@cretin.my.ami.com.au References: <344CFD22.5D17F764@mistralk.co.uk> <344D1A6B.7F40B5EA@mistralk.co.uk> <345411FA.5126@telusplanet.net> <3454336a$1$woehfu$mr2ice@news.aros.net> <c1.01.2J8XCq$1C9@maximus.os2.ami.com> <878601255snz@dsl.co.uk> Organization: OS/2 Support Reply-To: see.my.web.pages@www.ami.com.au/os2/ Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.utilities,de.comp.os.os2.setup,demon.ip.support.os2,relcom.comp.os.os2,prima.support.os2