On 07:50 AM 5/19/02, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
RD> I often like to know if a particular web server is running Unix or RD> Winblows. A port scanner is a useful tool in making that
determination.
[allan@ns1 phpdig]$ telnet www.istop.com 80 Trying 216.187.106.194... Connected to dci.doncaster.on.ca (216.187.106.194). Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 01:47:57 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_fastcgi/2.2.8
Sure, it works on some servers, but try it on yahoo.com, cnn.com, ...
<http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.cnn.com> Works for me, works from any system that has a browser. At any given time I'm *far* more likely to have a browser running than port scanning software, so this solution is also IMHO faster. jc