I think it's still worthwhile to allow the user to disable the footer, for aesthetic reasons. If you're accelerating your site, you don't want that showing up on your pages.
Cheers,
On 23/02/2010, at 6:53 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Struzik Wojciech wrote:
>> Look at link below:
>> http://techspalace.blogspot.com/2008/01/remove-squid-footer.html
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Landy Landy <landysaccount_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I would like to know where I can edit the footer for the error pages for example I would like to change:
>>>
>>> Generated Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:20:02 GMT by Optimum-Wireless-Services (squid/3.0.STABLE21)
>>>
>>> to something else. I don't want the user to know I'm using squid.
>
> PS: the nasty ones who wants to know will ALWAYS be able to detect Squid when plugged in. Software fingerprinting goes as far down as far down as the TCP and UDP packet and port behaviour.
>
> httpd_suppress_version_string option allows removal of the obvious version name.
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/httpd_suppress_version_string
>
> visible_hostname alters the machine name displayed.
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/visible_hostname
>
> The rest of that line is usually kind of important for troubleshooting.
>
> To blame all network errors on your web server, or leave users in the dark about some problems use deny_info.
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/deny_info
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE24
> Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.16
-- Mark Nottingham mnot_at_yahoo-inc.comReceived on Thu Mar 04 2010 - 05:38:01 MST
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