To the poster asking about turning Apache's so called "advertising" off,
I find this to be an interesting question. It is not really advertising
in the strict sense of the word. It is what transpires during the http
protocol exchange. In this exchange, among other elements, machine and
web server software info is exchanged. Here is a typical example of such
an exchange: 

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.trismegistus.net

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 22:50:55 GMT
Server: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.22 (Linux-Mandrake/1.3mdk)
mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.6
Last-Modified: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:58:38 GMT
ETag: "15cf4-d45-3c8f934e"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3397
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

So you see that this is really a form of identification, not
"advertising". It is necessary for the exchange of this info so that one
machine can "talk" to another, using http, and ask for the web page that
the web server is running for the public.

After all this having been said, I am not sure you can or would want to
turn this communication off. Maybe the resident Apache guru, Vincent,
can share some wisdom with us on this issue. 

BTW why do you want to turn this feature off?

aka Dr John
-- 
J. Craig Woods
UNIX/NT Network/System Administration

-Art is the illusion of spontaneity-


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