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TLS fingerprinting: How it works, where it is used and how to control your signature | lwt hiker

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In this two-part series of posts I would like to expand about server-side browser fingerprinting. Server-side fingerprinting is a collection of techniques used by web servers to identify which web client is making a request based on network parameters sent by the client. By web client I mean the type of client, as in which browser or CLI tool, and not a specific user like what a cookie identifies.

In this two-part series of posts I would like to expand about server-side browser fingerprinting. Server-side fingerprinting is a collection of techniques used by web servers to identify which web client is making a request based on network parameters sent by the client. By web client I mean the type of client, as in which browser or CLI tool, and not a specific user like what a cookie identifies. A different technique from server-side fingerprinting is client-side fingerprinting, which is when Javascript is injected to test the client. This may be the subject of a future post, and I’ll focus

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