Newsgroups : Borland : borland.public.delphi.internet.winsock : 2007 Nov : Re: Security Problem
| Subject: | Re: Security Problem |
| Posted by: | "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" (no.spam@no.spam.com) |
| Date: | Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:19:43 |
"MrT" <contact@heat-mi.org> wrote in message
news:4747416b@newsgroups.borland.com...
> I get access denied because of the user agent "Indy Library".
Spammers like to use Indy, and Indy has done a lot of work on the email
components to better support anti-spamming tools. But I have never heard of
an HTTP server denying a client request based on the UserAgent. The
UserAgent is used by the server to identify the browser in order to
indentify available features and such.
> Since this is obviously a problem with hackers and easily over
> come by removing "Indy Library" from the HTTP.UserAgent,
> why not just leave that out?
It already is. I guess you are still using an older version.
Gambit
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