On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I reckon it ought to be fairly easy to identify a web server based
> on error messages and details of responses.
But that sort of thing can be munged. Can you query $ENV{server_software}?
Even if you could, that can me munged too.
> Is there any software out there that already does this, or evidence
> as to why it would be impractical?
What are you trying to do? Could you get away with asking Netcraft? They
had a feature that would poll a given server and tell you what software it
thought the server in question was running. This could be LWP-able...
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Chris Devers
"People with machines that think, will in times of crisis,
make up stuff and attribute it to me" - "Nikla-nostra-debo"
