Jonas Eckerman wrote:
>Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>Received: (private information removed)
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>>It just boggles my mind why anyone would go through that much trouble
>>to deliberately damage a header line, rather than just delete it.
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>The only reason I can think of for that (in this case) is that ther want to
>keep those headers in order for server hop counting to work.
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>Of course, it would be much better (and more useful) if they kept the time
>stamp and obfuscated the headers without breaking the format. :-/
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>/Jonas
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Sure.
They could replace it with either:
Received (deleted); timestamp-here
and still be in complaince, or rewrite it:
X-Header-Rewrite: Received-obfucated-for-no-obvious-purpose=3
Or any other number of imaginative yet-ultimately-misguided but
still-in-compliance-with-applicable-standards ways.
-Philip
