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Re: Server signature

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
December 21, 2010 07:20PM
On 12/21/2010 10:37 PM, Simon Leins wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are working on a project for a customer.
>
> For political reasons, the customer will refuse to have any non-IIS web
> servers. Since we deliver the service as SaaS, the customer can only see
> the OS fingerprint and server signature (together with a few other things
> like error pages).
>
> For the OS signature we are able to change it on the fly with a
> security/network appliance and make it looks unknown, but we now need to
> fake the web server signature. Rather than adding a proxy such as varnish
> in front, I am looking for the way to directly patch the source code to
> change the server signature.
>
> Could someone point me the file name to patch to get this done?
>
> As for curious, I work behind the scene so the end-user does not know my
> name :-)

Not sure what that last bit is supposed to mean but I hope you realize that
you can get into big trouble contractually if you misrepresent the service
to your customer. This might not sound like a big deal from a technical
perspective but if anything goes wrong than you can basically be accused of
fraud quite easily.

Regards,
Dennis

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Server signature

Simon Leins December 21, 2010 04:42PM

Re: Server signature

Eugaia December 21, 2010 05:30PM

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António P. P. Almeida December 21, 2010 05:48PM

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Simon Leins December 21, 2010 05:54PM

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Dennis Jacobfeuerborn December 21, 2010 07:20PM

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Simon Leins December 22, 2010 03:42AM



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