Re: Slower HTTP for privacy

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Mon, 30 January 2023 21:53 UTC

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From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Soni L. wrote:

> It's not at all what we ask for! Uh, we mean like, why does the HTTP server 
> have to parse and discard the User-Agent header and another 10 or so headers 
> which it has no use for, instead of just... not receiving those headers in 
> the first place?

You can easily make your HTTP client send only the exact headers you want. 
HTTP is very flexible that way.

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