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Re: Any webservers out there?



* [Sean Neakums] 

> AFAIR, they use the "Server:" header in the HTTP response to determine
> the OS of the server, rather than fingerprinting the TCP/IP stack.
> But I could be wrong.

They use something they call "passive tcp fingerprinting".  I don't know
exactly what that implies.  The Server header is not used for OS
detection, at least not for Linux.

Oystein
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