All right, we should get this whole privacy thing settled right now,
before either Akismet becomes any larger, or the problem becomes any
larger.<br>
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Matt, the WordPress plugin sends pretty much everything to the server,
including many things which don't seem to be particularly necessary,
like as Dirk pointed out, the server version.<br>
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What do we NEED to be sending, and what can be omitted?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dirk Haun</b> <<a href="mailto:dirk@haun-online.de">dirk@haun-online.de</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>is there a list of required fields that have to be included when sending<br>
a request to the Akismet web service?<br><br>I've managed to produce a working plugin for Geeklog by reverse-<br>engineering the WordPress plugin, but on closer inspection, it does seem<br>to send quite a lot of information over the wire.
<br><br>I can understand that you probably don't want to specify exactly what<br>Akismet is looking for in a spam post, but the current implementation<br>(copied and pasted from the WordPress plugin) does send a lot of<br>
obviously unnecessary information, as well as some that raises privacy<br>and even security concerns.<br><br>For example, I assume Akismet doesn't really need to know that my<br>webserver has PDFlib installed, or in fact, anything about my webserver.
<br>I'm also going to filter out the cookies (session cookies, for example,<br>are a touchy subject) and would suggest that the WordPress plugin does<br>the same.<br><br>Other than that, I'm pretty excited about this new spam filter and am
<br>eagerly awaiting the next wave of spam posts ;-)<br><br>bye, Dirk<br><br><br>--<br><a href="http://www.geeklog.net/">http://www.geeklog.net/</a><br><a href="http://geeklog.info/">http://geeklog.info/</a><br><br>_______________________________________________
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