I used to work with a guy that had a favourite past-time.  He'd grep the
source for those strings, and them replace them with a MOTD - usually
flavoured with monty python references.  So if there's no configuration
for this, that's one option. (alter the source to return 'empty string'
and recompile).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:03 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Hiding "Apache-Coyote/1.1" banner in Tomcat 5
> 
> 
> On 03/08/2004 02:57 PM James Agnew wrote:
> > I've been looking for a way to prevent security scanners such as 
> > Nessus from being able to easily read Tomcat's standalone webserver 
> > details.  I'm running Tomcat 5.0.18 standalone and Nessus 
> identifies 
> > it as follows:
> > 
> > Server Version: Apache-Coyote/1.1
> > Server Banner: Apache-Coyote/1.1
> > 
> > I can't seen anything similar to Apache's 'ServerTokens' 
> directive to 
> > disable/suppress the info given out.
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is the problem with that?
> 
> Adam
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