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Re: netcraft os-detection
From: Bryan Blackburn <blb () pobox com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:16:28 -0700
Since netcraft state they examine the website response, I'd say it's the Server line from www.apple.com that makes it look like it could be Solaris, $ telnet www.apple.com 80 Trying 17.254.0.91... Connected to www.apple.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:59:20 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection: close [...] Bryan Juergen Schmidt wrote:
Hello, does anybody know, how netcraft is doing their os-detection? They report Solaris for www.apple.com while nmap detects MacOS 7.5.5 - 8.0 -- what seems more realistic :-) bye, ju -- Juergen Schmidt Redakteur/editor c't magazin Verlag Heinz Heise GmbH & Co KG, Helstorferstr. 7, D-30625 Hannover EMail: ju () ct heise de - Tel.: +49 511 5352 300 - FAX: +49 511 5352 417
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