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Salmo Bytes

2004-01-19, 6:31 am

Is it possible, perhaps from an sh or bash shell on a linux box,
to determine the operating system some (arbitrary) remote http server is
running on?
Klaus Johannes Rusch

2004-01-19, 6:31 am

Salmo Bytes wrote:
quote:

> Is it possible, perhaps from an sh or bash shell on a linux box,
> to determine the operating system some (arbitrary) remote http server is
> running on?


See http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#os for a good overview and
what you can determine and why the information may be inaccurate.

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Klaus Johannes Rusch
KlausRusch@atmedia.net
http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/


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