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in thread Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions

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

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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.

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Re: Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions
by b10m (Vicar) on Mar 17, 2004 at 10:02 UTC
    "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

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    "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.
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