Thursday, August 18, 2011

What information does browsers send when you visit a website?

Hey,





Does anyone knows what information does web browsers send when you visit a website? I would like to know all, that included every little thing that my computer send to web when I visit a website?





Also do you know any websites where I can check all the information I am sending?








Thanks for your help!|||See "What Do Online Advertisers Know About You?": EFF @ https://www.eff.org/related/9199/blog





What can be gleaned from your browsers queries test (EFF test of browser):


https://panopticlick.eff.org/





More browser tests; gives specific info your browser reveals about what sites you've already been to:


http://whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/





"Ad Hacker" shows you which advertisers and publishers are following you around the Internet.


Firefox add-on.


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox…|||The http header contains information on MIME types supported, and sometimes the actual name of the browser, the browser should just be a tool to request and view information over http, it creates little information itself.





Using the menu you can View-%26gt;page source this is ALL the information received over http but its a bit too terse to be useful.





Your right with scripting support websites are becoming capable of advanced programming, which can and does involve 2-way communications, don't blame your browser though, most warn you first.





Use IE protected mode or Firefox with NoScript+FlashBlock extensions.|||you can use WireShark to record your own traffic back and forth, and that will tell you exactly what's going on, filter for http ports and it will show you what's going on.





also, look up Curl, and the options curl has, it can look like your browser with the right settings.|||This information includes the IP address, type of browser,





And read Session management and Tracking section of the below URL:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie…|||it sends the proxy connections

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