[6415] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Network Abuse by Netscape? -- Was: Mosaic replacements, etc...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steinar Bang)
Fri Oct 28 13:26:16 1994
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 10:16:38 +0100
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From: Steinar Bang <steinarb@falch.no>
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>>>>> On Thu, 27 Oct 1994 12:01:15 +0100, "Lou Montulli" <montulli@strumpet.mcom.com> said:
> On Oct 25, 6:44pm, Rich Brandwein wrote:
>> We're also not happy about the fact that people's user id's are being
>> grabbed off the host and inserted into the headers (and in fact their
>> entire email address will be sent if the email "from" is properly
>> filled out) FROM field, which is passed in *every* transaction with
>> no way to turn this off other than put "-" in the from address (or
>> "robert.e.allen@att.com" in my case
> This header has been in the HTTP 1.0 spec since the beginning, and
> other browsers have been sending this header without complaints.
> BUT, pending the discussion we had in Chicago I have turned the
> "From:" header off for future versions of Netscape.
A pity. I think you were doing the right thing here.
- Steinar
