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mikey
06-12-2006, 01:05 AM
Wasn't quite sure where to post this but it is rather annoying. Your shoutbox is constantly requesting a refresh. I don't like requests that just come out of the blue like that. It's also a bit ill mannered toward anyone on dialup who disconnects while leaving your page up...it causes his connection to reactivate. It also causes paranoid folk like me to investigate the origin. :)

GET /forum/images/smiles/icon_sad.gif HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://www.experiencewindows.co.uk/forum/shoutbox_view.php?0?auto_refresh=1
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-Modified-Since: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 04:55:40 GMT
If-None-Match: "374107-43b-448f96cc"
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Host: www.experiencewindows.co.uk
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: phpbb2mysql_data=xxx
X-ProcessAndThread: IEXPLORE.EXE [1400; 1556]

HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:59:25 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Connection: close
ETag: "374107-43b-448f96cc"

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BTW If you want to stop telling all the would_be hacks what versions you are running, you could edit the signature so that only a generic Apache sig shows such as;

HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:26:05 GMT
Server: Apache
Connection: close
ETag: "2547b4-439-93e47a80"

To make the change;

#ssh to your box

su -

#Use vi, pico, or whatever editor you like and bring up

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

#Then serch there for

ServerSignature on

#edit 'ServerSignature on' to 'ServerSignature off'

#Underneath that edit on the next line add this:

ServerTokens ProductOnly

#Then save and exit

#Then Restart Apache

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

I hope you don't think I'm just being a busy body. I simply tend to point out things when I see them. Some find it helpfull...others tell me where to go. :)

HTH

FisionChips
06-12-2006, 10:00 AM
Hi Mikey,

welcome to EW.

The shoutbox needs to refresh in order to keep up to date with the latest posts there.

Sorry - that's life lol.

mikey
27-02-2007, 10:26 PM
No prob. I don't see the annoying shoutbox anymore as I simply 'clicked it away' with AdShield. I'm fortunate enough to be able to choose what I allow and what I don't ever want to see again and I prefer to choose for myself when I want a page to refresh or not.

I could have just taken a minute and used a matching expression in Proxomitron but AdShield only takes a couple of seconds to remove it. Now it will never again annoy me with it's constant refresh. :)

I hope all are well here. I've been a bit busy with the doctoring these days and haven't had a chance to lurk around much lately. Sorry to hear about Mike.

Well, ya'll take care now.

Later

Mike

FisionChips
27-02-2007, 11:06 PM
Hi Mikey,

Yeah I thought of Proxomitron shortly after posting here last. I only ventured very shyly into it's features... haven't had time since to explore more.

Not really sure about the shoutbox anyway - it's not used very much - if we want to say 'coooeee' over the fence we can do it in forum just as well lol.

Glad to hear you're around and about anyway.
I'm sure Mike will appreciate your comments - I'll pass them on if I get the opportunity.

TTFN Mikey
Cas

PS Useful sig you have there - might well use some of that stuff soon!