Tutorial: How to Set a Custom Web Server Name⁠

Overview⁠

You can change the "Server" HTTP header that the Access Server's built-in web server uses to identify itself to clients (browsers).

One reason to modify this would be to implement an automated scan that attempts to identify the web server software being used and exploits it, which then becomes confused and unable to determine the software in use.

Making this change doesn’t affect security very much, other than security through obscurity, but some security scan programs can 'fail' on this, and therefore, we have made it possible to customize this identification string.