[ale] [OT] Ethics of munging USER AGENT without consent

Doug McNash dmcnash at charter.net
Wed Jul 9 18:28:53 EDT 2003


All http traffic at my house runs thru a squid proxy that 
reports the USER_AGENT as Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit).  An 
ocasional site refuses to service it, sometimes with 
strange error messages.  As for the ethics of reporting a 
bogus USER_AGENT, I can't think of any reason I can't keep 
that kind of information hidden.

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Doug McNash <dmcnash at yahoo.com>
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