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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:34:44 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Interesting: Microsoft tried to move Hotmail to NT and failed.
Message-ID:  <19981111103444.N18183@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981110095540.A1100@cityip.co.za>; from Johann Visagie on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 09:55:40AM %2B0200
References:  <3647B9E7.BCC59A27@airnet.net> <Pine.SOL.3.96.981109231141.8762A-100000@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19981110155600.B499@freebie.lemis.com> <19981110095540.A1100@cityip.co.za>

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On Tuesday, 10 November 1998 at  9:55:40 +0200, Johann Visagie wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 at 15:56 SAST, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>
>> For those of you who can't be bothered to guess which site, etc., it's
>> http://www.netcraft.co.uk/cgi-bin/Survey/whats.  The result reads:
>>
>>    www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.1 on FreeBSD.
>
> The addition of the operating system check to the Netcraft survey must be a
> fairly new thing - I haven't seen that before.
>
> Now the question, _how_ do they do it?  They correctly identify my Web server
> as running FreeBSD, and yet I didn't see any connections or attempted
> connections, except for the expected "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" query to the httpd.

Right.  I saw this, too.  They *don't* identify the operating system
for my web server.

> Let me dig deeper...

Please do, and publish your results.

Greg
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