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To send the HTTP header and continue to use a caching plugin, add the header at the server level. See http:\u002F\u002Fwww.gnuterrypratchett.com\u002F for options.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch4>Checking the meta tag is added\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\u003Cp>You can check that the meta tag is visible by viewing your site’s HTML source and searching for “GNU Terry Pratchett”.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fchrome.google.com\u002Fwebstore\u002Fdetail\u002Fclacks-overhead-gnu-terry\u002Flnndfmobdoobjfcalkmfojmanbeoegab\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">Clacks Overhead plugin\u003C\u002Fa> for Chrome and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Faddons.mozilla.org\u002Fen-US\u002Ffirefox\u002Faddon\u002Fgnu_terry_pratchett\u002F\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">GNU Terry Pratchett extension\u003C\u002Fa> for Firefox both light up when they detect the HTML meta tag or HTTP header.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch4>Credits and contributions\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\u003Cp>Inspired by \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002Fbestof\u002Fcomments\u002F2yyop7\u002Frdiscworld_redditors_with_web_servers_start\u002F\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">this reddit post\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fboingboing.net\u002F2015\u002F03\u002F15\u002Fsending-terry-pratchett-home-w.html\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">boingboing’s report\u003C\u002Fa>, and the \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.gnuterrypratchett.com\u002F\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">GNU Terry Pratchett\u003C\u002Fa> website.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Contributions welcome at the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fnickcernis\u002Fgnu-terry-pratchett\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">GitHub repo\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n","Add an X-Clacks-Overhead header with “GNU Terry Pratchett” to all non-admin pages.",18229,13,"2025-12-02T20:30:00.000Z","6.9.4","4.6","5.6",[27,28],"http-headers","terry-pratchett","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fnickcernis\u002Fgnu-terry-pratchett","https:\u002F\u002Fdownloads.wordpress.org\u002Fplugin\u002Fgnu-terry-pratchett.0.4.1.zip",0,null,"2026-03-15T15:16:48.613Z"]