[1243] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: E-mail Address in WEB Browser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Weinstein)
Fri Dec 15 04:53:39 1995
To: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 22:51:10 -0800
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Christian Mogensen wrote:
>
> >Actually, the "From:" header is an optional part of the HTTP spec that no
> >browser I know chooses to send, in any fashio, with its requests. The
>
> I think you'll find that many browsers do send From (Netscape is just one
> of them) with HTTP requests. It depends on whether you have set up your
> e-mail address in the user preferences.
Netscape does not send the From: header with HTTP requests.
--Jeff
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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.
