• Hi I just want to know how you can tell what OS/Server software an online webserver is running on. Is there a website that I can put the domain-name/IP address into and it will tell me? Or a command line tool? I can't tell from the page extensions because they are simply .html (the website obviously uses a re-writing engine). Your very prompt answer is appreciated!


  • This telnet command: telnet www.google.co.uk 80 Followed by the input GET / HTTP/1.0 [and 2 newlines] Produced the following, which you can see contains the name of a server stated to be the one in use. Websites are not obliged to be truthful in this. HTTP/1.0 302 Found Location: ://www.google.co.uk/ Set-Cookie: ...details...cut... Content-Type: text/html Server: GWS/2.1 Content-Length: 154 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:48:01 GMT Connection: Keep-Alive


  • Just try to view a non-existing page. Like www.server.com/no_such_page.html The result will be an error, and the Server name will be provided at the bottom of the page.


  • Hi shadow_developer-ga. No unfortunately 404 are already being handled - i.e. I get a friendly 404 which does not have any mention of server.


  • 1. Visit http://www.netcraft.com 2. Enter your domain in the top-left box and press search 3. Look at the 'Hosting History' section on the results page 4. The latest entry will be the server you are running I hope that works for you. Thanks PS. It's a shame normal GA users can't be paid for answers :-(


  • Try using ethereal or any other sniffer to monitor the HTTP messages you receive from the website you want to check. The HTTP response messages from website would have a response-header field by name 'Server'. This field contains the tokens to identify HTTP server software. E.g. on monitoring HTTP respones from www.ebay.com, it reveals Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 See if it works for you.







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