RE: [PATCH 0/3] Advertise OS version

>On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 04:01:57PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 3:50 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> > > I don't mind if this is present but disabled by default, but then
>> > > I guess it is not really serving much of a purpose, as hardly
>> > > anybody would enable it. Which makes collecting large-scale
>> > > statistics by hosting providers pretty much useless (and I don't
>> > > think it is all that useful for debugging individual cases).
>> >
>> > I agree that it should actually be disabled by default, for privacy
>> > and security reasons, but that would actually defeat its purpose, so
>> > I'm not really sure should it be merged.
>>
>> One possibility is to send just the `sysname`, described as 'Operating
>> system name (e.g., "Linux")', field of the struct utsname filled out
>> by uname(2) by default.
>
>That would be better to me. I still don't love it, but I admit it's coming more from a
>knee-jerk response than from some rational argument against people knowing I run
>Linux.
>
>Since HTTP user-agent fields are common, we can look at those for prior art. curl
>sends its own version but nothing else. Most browsers do seem to include some OS
>information. My version of firefox gives its own version along with "Linux x86_64".
>So basically "uname -sm".
>
>> And then there might be a knob to deactivate it completely or to make
>> it more verbose (which might be useful for example in a corporate
>> context).
>
>Yes, I think we should definitely have an option to suppress or override it, just like
>we do for the user-agent string.