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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:55:40 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Interesting: Microsoft tried to move Hotmail to NT and failed.
Message-ID:  <19981110095540.A1100@cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <19981110155600.B499@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 03:56:00PM %2B1030
References:  <3647B9E7.BCC59A27@airnet.net> <Pine.SOL.3.96.981109231141.8762A-100000@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19981110155600.B499@freebie.lemis.com>

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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.

Let me dig deeper...

-- V

Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559

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