Grab a copy of Mozilla and the LiveHTTPHeaders extension. Watch to see what the server you access announces itself as. Sites that use Windows will most likely display a header that looks like:

Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
[download]

Of course, there are many people who believe that Windows must be the best thing out there, otherwise why else would so many people use it? So they go, and they get a Windows box, and for speed they create CGI scripts based in C. I am waiting patiently for the day one of these servers gets hosed, it gets national publicity, and I get to point and laugh.

"Grab a copy of Mozilla and the LiveHTTPHeaders extension. Watch to see what the server you access announces itself as."

Yuck, why all the hassle of installing and firing up Mozilla (+LiveHTTPHeaders) when LWP provides you with lwp-request (and HEAD)? Or if that's not installed on your box, what about telnet?

$ lwp-request -m HEAD <url>

$ HEAD <url>

$ telnet <server> 80
Trying <www.xxx.yyy.zzz>...
Connected to <server>
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
[download]

"Of course, there are many people who believe that Windows must be the best thing out there, otherwise why else would so many people use it?"

I'm fairly sure a lot of people know smoking is bad for their health, yet they still smoke a pack a day.

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b10m

All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.