[Wolves] IIS on Linux?

[David Goodwin]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:40, Jono Bacon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > No, but you can fake your http headers quite easily!
> 
> I thought that would be it, but what would be the
> reason for faking the headers?

Security through obscurity :-/

i.e. hackers can't easily tell what sort of web server it is - i.e
apache or iplanet or roxen or zeus and what version...

so making the hackers life that bit harder (i.e. they have to run all
their hacker scripts on it, not just one specific one ! )



David.
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