Yeah, the person who couldn't figure out how to loop over a set of integers
is also writing a virus. That's likely to happen.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to do this -- finding web servers
people are running on their workstations within a company for example. It's
of more concern that a JSP list is being used to discuss these things -- I'm
assuming that they're not running a scan against a /16 network from within a
JSP page.

Clayton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: Type of web server from socket ??


> 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
>
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