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Here's some questions I hope some of the Netscape staffers on the list can help with. 1) Can we delete/rename or otherwise disable the MagicCookie file and still use Navigator? 2) Are there headers besides the standard HTTP/1.0 fields sent with our http transactions? What are they? 3) Can we go completely stealth inside of Netscape without a proxy server? In a privacy seeking frame of mind, Bill Bill Humphries \/\/\/ bill.humphries@msn.fullfeed.com /\/\/\ Madison, WI, USA PGP Public Key Fingerprint = 84 05 17 9D B9 6E 2D FE A7 D1 E0 DC D0 96 63 FB
Bill Humphries wrote:
Here's some questions I hope some of the Netscape staffers on the list can help with.
1) Can we delete/rename or otherwise disable the MagicCookie file and still use Navigator?
Is your attempt to disable cookies all together or just disable persistent (last across multiple sessions) cookies? If you want to disable persistent cookies and you are running on unix you can just chmod the cookies file to be un-writable. I don't believe that there is a way to disable cookies in general.
2) Are there headers besides the standard HTTP/1.0 fields sent with our http transactions? What are they?
We send headers for proxies, caching, fetching byte ranges, and cookies. Some of these are part of HTTP 1.0 or extensions that are being worked on in IETF or W3C working groups.
3) Can we go completely stealth inside of Netscape without a proxy server?
No. Right now you can't disable cookies, you can't disable referer, and you can't mask your IP address. I'd like to add an option to disable everything that we can in some future release, but there is nothing I can do about the IP address. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.
Just to remind that I'm running and made available a couple of months ago an anonymous proxy which drops all those nasty infos see http://hplyot.obspm.fr:6661/ to have a look at those headers dl -- Laurent Demailly * http://hplyot.obspm.fr/~dl/ * Linux|PGP|Gnu|Tcl|... Freedom Prime#1: cent cinq mille cent cinq milliards cent cinq mille cent soixante sept Greenpeace [Hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance] Clinton radar Croatian AK-47 security
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