Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id PAA19175; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:00:42 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA19168; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:00:38 -0700 Received: from ace.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us (ace.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us [198.31.42.1]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id PAA18687 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by ace.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA235679224; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:00:24 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:00:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Alexei Kosut To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: Survey results... In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Rob Hartill wrote: > > BTW, someone on this list (anonymous unless he comes forward) told me > > that he'd changed the server ID from Apache to Netscape in order to get > > onto the Netscape galleria page :-) > > I know of a number of sites which have done this. Is it time to add some > other hidden "validating feature"? :) Well, there's actually a simple way of figuring it out. Check the date formats. If it's a server that conforms to the HTTP spec, like Apache, it might send: Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 21:52:25 GMT On the other hand, if it doesn't conform to the spec, like (say) Netscape's servers, it might send: Date: Monday, 03-Jun-96 21:52:25 GMT I don't know about the 2.0 servers, but Netscape Communications and Commerce through 1.1 do that. (Navigator does too, I think, still). Don't know why they don't switch... maybe they figure their products have less than a four year lifespan, or they secretly plan to go out of business in 1999, so they don't have to deal with it. I read an article in (I think it was) Time the other day about how the "year 2000 problem" is going to cost corporate America something like $750 million dollars, and only half the companies are going to be able to be ready in time. I dunno... if companies start charging me in 1900 prices instead of 2000, given the current rates of inflation... I don't think I'd mind :) -- ________________________________________________________________________ Alexei Kosut The Apache HTTP Server URL: http://www.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~akosut/ http://www.apache.org/ "War does not determine who is right, only who is left."