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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