FW: [wplug] what os is running?

[Mark Dalrymple]

> You can also pull some info from http requests but
> you'll need special software ( I can't remeber what it was ) to do this.

You can use telnet for this.  Telnet to port 80 of the site, enter the HTTP command
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
and press return twice:

% telnet wplug.org 80
Trying 63.84.105.11...
Connected to penguin.wplug.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:47:25 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_python/2.7.8 Python/1.5.2 mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26 mod_throttle/3.1.2
Last-Modified: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 18:59:58 GMT
ETag: "9a7d5-1632-3da8712e"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 5682
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.

The 'Server' header is the interesting one.  Although sometimes it might just say "Unix" and
not give the flavor of it.  

If you get something like
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
You know what kind of internet worms they support.

Cheers,
++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com.  http://badgertronics.com
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