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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
MSFT 483.03+0.5%Dec 5 9:30 AM EST
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To: Greg Jung who wrote (1392)8/5/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: Judd  Read Replies (2) of 1600
 
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Is there a way to determine what OS/server software is on the other end?
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The easiest and only way I know to do that is to type this:

type: telnet www.techweb.com 80
output: {a telnet session will open and wait for input}
type: GET /
output: {a bunch of ugly HTML}

At the top it usually says what server is running, however I think a lot of sites turned this off for security reasons. Try www.Nasdaq.com for example. They use IIS.

Congratulations, you are a web browser.

P.S. Try to just telnet to techweb. They have a nasty message for you. My guess is that it is Unix.
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