Identify Remote Web Server

[James]

Hi, I am trying to find the type of web server being used at a remote
website, but have no idea where to start to be honest. I have written a
webpage class that gathers information about that webpage (keywords and
links etc), I need to find whether the server the webpage is on is either
IIS or Linux etc. Any pointers to a class which I could work with in the
..NET 2 FCL to accomplish this?

 

[Guest]

You would need to look in the HTTP Headers to see if the server told you. If
it didn't then there is no way to tell AFAIK.

HTH

Ciaran O'Donnell

 

[Joerg Jooss]

Thus wrote James,

Hi, I am trying to find the type of web server being used at a remote
website, but have no idea where to start to be honest. I have written
a webpage class that gathers information about that webpage (keywords
and links etc), I need to find whether the server the webpage is on is
either IIS or Linux etc. Any pointers to a class which I could work
with in the .NET 2 FCL to accomplish this?

Use either System.Net.WebClient or System.Net.HttpWebRequest to send a HTTP
request and check the HTTP header "Server" in the response.

Note that many sites don't send Server headers, because doing that may reveal
security vulnerabilities.

Cheers,

 

[James]

Thanks to both of you. I will wondered if there was a way to get a
HttpWebResponse from the Webbrowser control in any way but this doesn' seem
possilbe. I have mshtml wired in also but still no properties, does anyone
know any better?

Thanks
James
http://www.bandwidthvista.com

 

[Joerg Jooss]

Thus wrote James,

Thanks to both of you. I will wondered if there was a way to get a
HttpWebResponse from the Webbrowser control in any way but this doesn'
seem possilbe. I have mshtml wired in also but still no properties,
does anyone know any better?

I guess you can combine the two by using HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse to
download local copies, and let the WebBrowser control display these copies.

Cheers,