Re: [PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-25 Thread Becoming Digital
PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 25 September, 2003 12:08 Subject: Re: [PHP] Netcraft In the Unix world with PHP, you can do OS fingerprinting by calling a system tool such as nmap (option: -O), but this require root privileges, and is not always perceived as well-behaviour by sysadmins. Or you c

Re: [PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-25 Thread Christophe Chisogne
In the Unix world with PHP, you can do OS fingerprinting by calling a system tool such as nmap (option: -O), but this require root privileges, and is not always perceived as well-behaviour by sysadmins. Or you can do everything you want with PHP sockets. I guess Netcraft use OS fingerprinting tool

Re: [PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-25 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:25, Christophe Chisogne wrote: > > That method is not reliable, as you can see. Other methods exist > to check OS (fingerprinting) etc. But it remain quite complex. > (round-robin DNS, load balancing, caching servers, firewalls...) Maybe not, but it's the method that Netcr

Re: [PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-25 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Christophe Chisogne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > can use a PHP script that opens a socket connection on port 80 > > For these interactive things, Perl seems much more appropriate for > me. Using libwww aka LWP for the web client (LWP::UserAgent or > LWP::RobotUA) Usi

Re: [PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-25 Thread Christophe Chisogne
Robert Cummings wrote: can use a PHP script that opens a socket connection on port 80 to get For these interactive things, Perl seems much more appropriate for me. Using libwww aka LWP for the web client (LWP::UserAgent or LWP::RobotUA) Using DBI for access to a DB to store/retreive results. I'm do

Re: [PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-25 Thread Robert Cummings
You can see what they see using telnet (which incidentally suggests you can use a PHP script that opens a socket connection on port 80 to get the information). The commands in telnet are as follows: telnet www.interjinn.com 80 HEAD / HTTP/1.0 That will give you the OS, web server, and any PHP in

Re: [PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-25 Thread Louie Miranda
- Original Message - From: "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Netcraft > Maybe if I add a second question, which I figure didn't have to be > asked, sin

Re: [PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-24 Thread John Nichel
Maybe if I add a second question, which I figure didn't have to be asked, since I'm asking a PHP list, would make it all better "Does anyone know how Netcraft queries a webserver to get the info it does (OS, web server software, uptime, etc.)?" Can this be done with PHP But thanks for the

Re: [PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-24 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- John Nichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how Netcraft queries a webserver to get the info it > does (OS, web server software, uptime, etc.)? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html Please try to stick to PHP queries as much as possible. Thanks. Chris = Become a bet

[PHP] Netcraft

2003-09-24 Thread John Nichel
Does anyone know how Netcraft queries a webserver to get the info it does (OS, web server software, uptime, etc.)? -- By-Tor.com It's all about the Rush http://www.by-tor.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php