Linux running IIs?

[Net Llama!]

On 08/16/03 13:30, Kurt Wall wrote:

> Quoth ejbr at comcast.net:
> 
>>On Saturday 16 August 2003 03:33 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
>>
>>>On Saturday 16 August 2003 02:47 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 08/16/03 11:33, Jerry McBride wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The following Netcraft webpage lists microsoft os and webserver
>>>>>history... What's really odd to me is why it shows linux as the
>>>>>os and IIs as the server?
>>>>>
>>>>>http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.microsoft.com
>>>>
>>>>That information can be faked on the server side.  I'd say what is
>>>>most likely is that they're running linux with apache.
>>>
>>>That's my take Lonni. What I find most interesting is wondering just
>>>how much of micorsoft might actually be running on linux and
>>>reporting as w/IIs.
>>>
>>>Unbelievable.
>>
>>Why does 
>>http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?host=www.microsoft.com
>>
>>show  
>>
>>"The site www.microsoft.com  is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Windows 
>>Server 2003."
>>
>>but
>>http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.microsoft.com
>>
>>same but for that "/" after graph, show 
>>
>>"The site www.microsoft.com  is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux"
> 
> 
> Because Akamai runs Linux and the Microsoft site(s) run Windows Server
> 2003?

That's prolly the best explanation yet.


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