[wellylug] www.windowsupdate.com runs linux ! :)

[Andrew Presant]

On, or about 16/8/03 11:34 AM, "Ilia Pavlenko" may have said:

> 
> Well, according to NetCraft
> 
> "http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.windowsupdate.com"
> 
> The site www.windowsupdate.com is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux.
> 
> 
> 

Have a closer look:

"Why do you report impossible operating system/server combinations ?

Webservers that operate behind a caching system, load balancer, reverse
proxy server or a firewall may sometimes report the operating system of the
intermediate machine. Hence reports of 'Microsoft/IIS on Linux' may indicate
that either the web server is behind a Linux server that is acting as a
reverse proxy, or has configured the Akamai caching system such that the
first request to the site goes to one of Akamai's servers [which run Linux],
or as in the case of www.walmart.com has been configured to send a
misleading signature. "

Cheers
Andrew
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