What private information from server-bound headers is removed?
The Internet Junkbuster pounces on the following HTTP headers in requests to servers, unless instructed otherwise in the options. • The FROM header, which a few browsers use to tell your email address to servers, is dropped unless the -t option is set. • The USER_AGENT header is changed to indicate that the browser is Mozilla (Netscape) 3.0 with an unremarkable Macintosh configuration. (Different versions of the Internet Junkbuster indicated other configurations; our intent is to hinder anyone trying to infer whether our proxy is present.) If you don’t like the idea of incorrectly identifying your computer as a Mac, set it accordingly. • The REFERER header (which indicates where the URL currently being requested was found) is dropped. A single static referer to replace all real referers may be specified using the -r option. Where no referer is provided by the browser, none is added; the -x option with arguments such as -x ‘Referer: http://me.me.me’ can be used to send a bogus referer w
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