[ilugd] How to know what kind of server / os a website is being served from

2005-11-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Will browsing the net some icons appear on the address bar, before the address, sometimes its the Linux penguin, other times other icons. So a few related questions: 1. Do they indicate anything It also brought to mind whether the websites with the Penguin where served by a linux server

Re: [ilugd] How to know what kind of server / os a website is being served from

2005-11-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 26 Nov 2005 11:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Will browsing the net some icons appear on the address bar, before the address, sometimes its the Linux penguin, other times other icons. So a few related questions: 1. Do they indicate anything called a favicon - 16x16 image -

Re: [ilugd] How to know what kind of server / os a website is being served from

2005-11-25 Thread Manish Malik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ramnarayan.k wrote: Will browsing the net some icons appear on the address bar, before the address, sometimes its the Linux penguin, other times other icons. So a few related questions: 1. Do they indicate anything Your browser looks for the

Re: [ilugd] How to know what kind of server / os a website is being served from

2005-11-25 Thread Raj Mathur
Ram == ramnarayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ram Hi Will browsing the net some icons appear on the address Ram bar, before the address, sometimes its the Linux penguin, Ram other times other icons. Ram So a few related questions: 1. Do they indicate anything It's probably the

Re: [ilugd] How to know what kind of server / os a website is being served from

2005-11-25 Thread Abhay Kedia
On 11/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and finally how would / could one make out what kind of server or OS are the webpages, websites based on / served from. You can run a search about the site on http://news.netcraft.com/ This will get you detailed info about the server

Re: [ilugd] How to know what kind of server / os a website is being served from

2005-11-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You may read up more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon Quick ways include: curl -I http://india.gov.in (try it :) ). Also look at http://httptype.sourceforge.net/ by Philip. Regards, Manish * Raj Mathur wrote: It's probably the favicon.ico, a feature initiated by internet