On Aug 2, 2006, at 3:57 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Sebastian Nohn wrote:
>>
>> please take the time to read it before voting against the proposal :)
I am all for this patch (I know my vote means nothing)!
> I've read your comments, agree it's 17 bytes (that you can just as
> well remove,
> as you point out, by hand.)
I have written a protocol output filter that removes the server
header, but would much rather have a config directive.
> I'm curious - do IE, Firefox or other common clients use the server
> name tag
> as a clue for fixups around aberrant behavior or to enable optimal
> behavior?
We (Yahoo!) have run for years without sending the Server header and
have not had any problem. I think it is more likely a case of the
server detecting the browser and tweaking the output to get around
browser bugs.
Brian
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