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 -- 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
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