On 01/02/2011 07:52 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: >> Currently the default used by the LWP module. Could easily set it to >> use an identical string to Firefox or IE. > > and, on occasion, our IPS will tarpit, or delay, or totally block > anything that hits the web servers more than a couple of times with > LWP (or java lib), assuming its a spammer using LWP to harvest web > sites for email addresses, so, changing it would be good. >
...and in our case we prefer to set User-Agent to a known "secret sauce" so that our NIDS will ignore outbound HTTP requests from our DMZ mail servers. Having User-Agent as a config setting would be useful to us (this is really more of a general SA question than DecodeShortURL) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
