Determine OS and web server software

[James McDonald]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:05:29PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I used to know this, but...
> 
> What is the trick(s) to determine which OS and which web server software
> a web server is running?


http://www.netcraft.com can be helpful in determining what a server is running simply go there and enter the url in the `what's that site running' field and submit it.

> 
> I just came across a bothersome problem. I wget'ed -r a web site to a
> linux box and all went well. However, when I copied this site over to
> my USB flash card (which likely is preformatted in vfat or some such)
> I had a collision of two directories, which were spelled the same but
> had different capitalizations. So, I guess the web server was running
> linux/unix. But, I would like some way to tell this more certainty.
> 
> Is there some easy trick to overcome this problem? It won't be hard to
> fix this one problem, but, this could get tricky if there were a lot
> of collisions.
> 
> I also want to get some data on which OS/software they run. I may
> need some data to do some convincing of our IS dept, which is an MS
> monoculture.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joel
> 
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