Detection of Gemini server software

[Jason McBrayer]

Anna “CyberTailor” writes:

> The specification leaves error messages in response field "meta" to
> servers' developers. So in response to malfored request servers may
> send "59 invalid request", "59 Error parsing URL!", "59 Invalid URL"
> or something else.
>
> Is it a security issue or just "creepy"?

That's a good question. I know it's considered good practice not to leak
any information you don't need to. But as you also suggest, I'm not sure
if fingerprinting server implementations is really that sensitive
information.

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