Re: [Pan-users] Re: Hide user agent?

[Clunk Werclick]

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 10:52 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Clunk Werclick
> <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Wed, 29 Jul 2009
> 10:54:57 +0100:
> 
> > Is it possible to change the user agent string at all or withhold it? I
> > don't want it in my posts for privacy reasons but can't find an option
> > to kill it?
> > 
> > User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black)
> 
> Sure, but as with a number of other pan options, it's apparently one of 
> those settings Gnome folks like to think is too complicated for a normal 
> user, so it's not exposed in the GUI, only in the config file.
> 
> All pan's config and data is stored in its data dir, ~/.pan2/ by 
> default.  The setting in question appears in the preferences.xml file.  
> Search for "user-agent" and you should find it.  Set that false and you 
> should be in business. =:^)
> 
> (That's for 0.133 anyway, but AFAIK it has been there for awhile.  Do 
> note that unpatched 0.132 had a security vuln a bit over a year ago.  
> 0.133 fixed that and a few other things, but your distribution, assuming 
> that's how you got your pan, may have integrated the patch into 0.132.)
> 
> As pan is open source, you can of course download the sources, grep for 
> that string (or just "Waxed" should find it), change it as desired, and 
> recompile.  However, it doesn't appear there's a non-rebuilding user 
> exposed setting, even in the config file, for that, just to toggle the 
> header on and off.
> 
> Or, if you prefer, the string is also exposed in the binary (at least as 
> compiled for amd64), so with a hex editor it'd be no problem to directly 
> edit it there, taking all the usual precautions when directly editing a 
> binary file, of course.
> 
I was just about to hit it with hexedit when this dropped into the
mailbox. Thank you Duncan;

<flag name='add-user-agent-header-when-posting' value='false'/>

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