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> X-Powered-By: <framework> - used to advertise the framework or technology that the server is using (usually a bad idea).

I was always a fan of setting this to either be silly ( X-Powered-By: magical elves ) or outright lie (Tell em it's some ruby thing when it's ASPNET)



X-powered-by: emacs




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