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Re: E-mail Address in WEB Browser

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert S. Muhlestein)
Fri Dec 15 17:44:23 1995

Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:31:36 -0800 (PST)
From: "Robert S. Muhlestein" <robertm@teleport.com>
To: William Perry <wmperry@spry.com>
cc: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>, www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199512151547.HAA01754@monolith.spry.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, William Perry wrote:

>   What I would like to see is a configurable chunk of things to send or not
> send.  Right now I don't think there is any way to turn off the sending of
> Referer in any browser but Emacs-W3.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
>   Emacs-W3 allows you to configure several levels of privacy.  You can
> selectively turn off the sending of the Referer header, the From address,
> and the OS section of the User-Agent string.  Would be nice to see a row of
> radio buttons in netscape 2.0 to control something similar. :)
> 
> -Bill P.

Big ditto (provided there's no stomping the loose CGI standard until 
something better comes along) 

Robert Muhlestein
Teleport Creative Services
CGI-BIN Programmer
cgi@teleport.com


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