Clean Response
Many people think that the generator tag is the last Joomla reference they need to remove (see my ByeByeGenerator plugin). Those people miss the response header.
This plugin allows an administrator to alter that response value to "PHP" (the plugin default), or a user supplied text value.
Note: If you have a system plugin that utilizes JResponse and is loaded BEFORE Clean Response, this plugin will have no effect on your response headers. Put Clean Response before other system plugins in your plugins list. YOUR HOST MUST SUPPORT STREAM WRAPPERS OR YOU WILL EXPERIENCE THE SAME ISSUE AS OLIN IN THE REVIEWS BELOW.
If your server does not support stream wrappers, you will see this header:
"X-Clean-Response: PHP stream wrappers not enabled"
Update 1.4: Resolved PHP Strict Standards error - nothing serious
Version 1.5 Joomla 3.0 compatibility
4/26/2012 - Joomla 1.5/1.6/1.7 availability and support withdrawn.
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Thanks for the 5 stars, but your description of the plugin operation in Joomla 2.5 is untrue.
My 2.5.3 test system responds with this header:
X-Content-Encoded-By: PHP
Which is the plugin default configuration.
If you're having an issue, you should contact me using the contact form at my site.
I installed Clean Response but failed to really read the installation documents and advice from the developer.
My site went blank, similar to Olin's below and i was desperate.
I tried a few things but still only a blank screen.
I contacted the developer and within an extremely short time they replied with a courteous, extremely informative and detailed method for rectifying the problem.
When i receive bad customer service i am always the first to complain and complain the loudest. I rarely take the time to give good service the recognition it deserves, yet the support and service i received in this instance was outstanding.
Problem is solved and all due to a great developer with awesome customer service!
I never receive the quality of service when i pay for it! Certainly never expected it for free software!
I highly recommend this product purely on service alone, not to mention the great functions of the product itself!
Keep up the great work!
My free extensions are my business card. When users enjoy my free extensions, and appreciate my customer service - they are more likely to become customers.
Thanks for the great review!
You should have contacted me. This is the first issue I have ever heard of using this extension.
You'll notice that all of the other reviews are 5 stars. My guess is that since this is your first review, you don't know what you're doing or this is sabotage against my extension rating.
However, I would suggest that anyone concerned about advertising their favorite CMS to hackers should also use a non-Joomla template, otherwise it would be easily possible for a malicious crawler to simply search for the string "Joomla" (such as in joomla_logo...jpg - the Joomla image on every bundled template) and scan for Joomla vulnerabilities.
Can obviously be tweaked out by renaming the Joomla images and editing the template scripts, though defeats the objective somewhat. That said, it's a pointless Joomla-related file-naming issue but, as I say, this little gem (in necessary conjuntion with ByeBye generator) work beautifully.
Nice one - thank you!
I'm glad it worked out for you. There have been some recent updates that I suggest you install! Performance and stability enhancements.
There are many things that can be done to hide the existence of Joomla. I've attempted to start discussions in the forums regarding more extreme methods, but was met with strong opposition by the moderators. Now I don't discuss, I just do.
I have a new component/plugin package to release soon that will help with this subject.
What would be good is if it would also change the 'generator' tag, which albeit I'll do myself but that would also save the effort on every upgrade.
Good work Michael ;-)
Check out my ByeByeGenerator plugin, which also (optionally) removes the robots tag.
