HTTP/1.0 headers, con’t
Referer - sent by client
- Referer: http://www.xxx-smut.com
- specifies address from which request was generated
- all sorts of privacy issues - must be careful with this
Server - returned by server
- Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.01
- identifies server software. why? (measurement…)
User-Agent - sent by client
- User-Agent: Mozilla/4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686)
- identifies client software
- why? Optimize layout, send based on capability of client.
- Hint: just pretend to be Netscape. MSIE does..