Sort of... Provided the server provides the piece of information. You just need to parse the server information returned to you. Here's a simple example script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
print server('http://www.microsoft.com'),"\n";
print server('http://www.linux.org'),"\n";

sub server {
  my $url = shift;
  my (undef,undef,undef,undef,$server) = head($url);
  return $server;
}
__DATA__
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Apache/1.3.27 (Linux) mod_perl/1.27 mod_ssl/2.8.14 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

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In reply to Re: Can I use LWP to determine the remote OS? by Mr. Muskrat
in thread Can I use LWP to determine the remote OS? by LameNerd

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