| Technical note: | 10006 |
| Created: | 05/11/95 by Trip |
| Updated: | 02/28/96 by Brian |
| Product: | Netscape Navigator |
Versions 1.0 and later of Netscape Navigator do not let web (HTTP) servers see your email address. Pre-release versions of Netscape Navigator before 1.0 used to let servers see your email address, but then we discovered an admin who was using this to send junk mail to the people who were visiting his site, so we removed this feature. Web servers are able to see that you are connecting to them with a copy of Netscape Navigator (because it identifies itself as such), and they are usually able to see what computer system you're connecting from, but no other information about yourself is given. Note that there is a field in the "Mail and News" section of the Netscape Preferences where you can give your email address, but this is used only to put your return address on outgoing email you send from the Navigator, and it is not given to any web servers you visit. Version 1.x of Netscape Navigator sends your email address as the password when you do an anonymous ftp to an ftp server. Version 2.0 of Netscape Navigator always sends "mozilla@" as the password instead.
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