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Reputation: 2517

Find out on what web server a site is running

I've found a few questions here on how to find out what technologies a page is using; however, none of the solutions proposed how to find out whether the page was e.g. running on a Apache HTTP Server or on Microsoft ISS.

Is it possible to find that out? And if yes, how?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1681

Answers (1)

Matt Ball
Matt Ball

Reputation: 359816

It's not universally possible, no. In some specific cases, you can look at the Server HTTP header, but it's not watertight and it's really up to the server to send to "honest" headers. There's nothing to say that an IIS server couldn't send this back:

Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

Additionally, proxies/load balancers/etc. could theoretically strip that information away completely.

Upvotes: 1

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