That's what I thought too. The mention of scanning IP addresses to identify the web server as IIS seems fishy.
-----Original Message----- From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy Cobley Sent: 05 February 2002 13:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Type of web server from socket ?? > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Bowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 February 2002 13:28 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Type of web server from socket ?? > > If you want to use a system call, you can telnet to port 80, > and issue the command "GET / HTTP/1.0" followed by two returns. > You'd have to filter the output for the line that starts with "Server:" > > ex: > > $ telnet <server> 80 > Trying... > Connected to <server>.lmig.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > GET / HTTP/1.0 You certainly could but I want to know why anyone would want to do this. Combined with the other recent threads about incrementing IP addresses and a mention of "port scanning" I'm just a little worried that there seems to be some sort of "DOS attack" or virus tutorial running on this list ! Andy c =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
