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
