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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:48:41 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Kasper (Swebase Network)" <kasper@swebase.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange???
Message-ID:  <20000813214841.N4553@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <20000813112427.E254@parish>
References:  <200008131209.AA92536996@swebase.com> <20000813112427.E254@parish>

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Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:09:48PM +0200, Kasper (Swebase Network) wrote:
>> 
>> Hello is this really possible??
>> http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.nassjo.se
>
>What Kasper is referring to is:
>
>	    www.nassjo.se is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on FreeBSD 
>
>The answer to your question is no. Netcraft do explain that the
>mechanisms they use to identify the OS and Web server s/w used are not
>100% accurate so you can expect the occasional strange result.

In addition to that, I've heard that it is not uncommon for people to
hack Apache so that it pretends to be IIS for political reasons.

Tony.
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