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Comment by jedberg | Hacker News Reader

For a while we had a recruiting message in the reddit headers. We also had this for many years:

    x-Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass

We also had this for a long time:

    Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --

Sadly, it looks like it was removed when they switched from haproxy to varnish. They did put this in though:

    x-moose: majestic

So that's something I guess.

Maybe custom response header would be the ideal place to insert output from something like Emacs spook:

Well, now I'm on a bunch of lists. Thanks for that link.

It's also in the robots.txt file.

  User-Agent: bender
  Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass

X-Bender came from slashdot.org didn't it? I recall it being present in the early 2000s.

Yes I believe we blatantly stole it from them.

There was a whole thread on reddit about it a decade ago when someone first discovered the drop table header: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/c0m9v/reddits_...