On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
> Sounds like 3 years have not changed the feelings towards > this. Ideally, we should remove the whole ap_get_server_version/ > ap_get_server_banner re-work as well since, It is generally useful to separate what information we write to arbitrary clients (controlled by ServerTokens) vs. what is logged at startup or reported in a few other special places; also, such a change would break binary compatibility. > iirc, this was > all to make it easier for this exact type of change. > yes, in that without the version-vs-banner change, "ServerTokens Off" would have taken an unfortunate behavior to a nonsensical extreme; but trimming the amount of information logged at startup based on ServerTokens was a known concern (at least it was one of my pet peeves)
