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Re: 404 - Conspiracy?

  • Subject: Re: 404 - Conspiracy?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 01:52:12 +0100
  • Newsgroups: alt.www.webmaster
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Manchester University
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Toby Inkster wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> I suspect you're on to some good line of thinking. I sometimes get
>> tempted (curiosity) to see if a site which I visit runs on Linux or
>> Windows. I have never intentionally converted a letter to uppercase to
>> get an answer though. It's unethical.
> 
> Rather an odd set of ethics to which you subscribe. It is unethical to
> type in a URL which you suspect might be incorrect? There are smarter ways
> of telling what OS a site runs on -- ways that won't show up in
> error_logs.

I was never doing it. All I said was that it's possible. I imagined there
would be many others ways. ASP and the like make it rather transparent too.

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
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