From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 10 16:07:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09918 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09833 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:07:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA20139; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:34:45 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA19890; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:34:45 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981111103444.N18183@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:34:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Johann Visagie , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting: Microsoft tried to move Hotmail to NT and failed. References: <3647B9E7.BCC59A27@airnet.net> <19981110155600.B499@freebie.lemis.com> <19981110095540.A1100@cityip.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981110095540.A1100@cityip.co.za>; from Johann Visagie on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 09:55:40AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message