[Tfug] I know that you know what I know

erich erich1 at copper.net
Tue Jun 5 22:08:08 MST 2007


Well,
     I got sidetracked. Sorry for the late response. My machine was
building Octave.
That last URL the "Client" one did the job. It returned:

*Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061027 -
You!* (United States)

      This is the so-called user agent string. It's not as detailed as I
expected, but
the information collected about my system is still unnerving.

                                                                                  
Thanks,
                                                                                  
Erich
                                                                  


Rich wrote:

>Erm...
>
>On Jun 4, 2007, at 9:39 pm, erich wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I know it's out there somwhere,
>>    
>>
>And for some people, "in here" can get pretty "out there" sometimes.
>
>  
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>>    I'm trying to find a website that will sense all the parameters  
>>of my server and display them to me:
>>    
>>
>Server...
>  
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>>          1) The processor chip & architecture.
>>          2) The make & version of web browser I'm using.
>>    
>>
>Client...
>  
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>>          3) The operating system type & kernel version.
>>
>>    It is a common feature with web servers to determine the  
>>capabilities of a connected client so that content can be  
>>configured/taylored, but this can also be a cybercrime exploit.
>>    
>>
>
>Are you asking for something that'll show your browser's current user- 
>agent string? Or something that'll infer stuff from your web server  
>in order to attack it?
>
>Server...
>http://www.port80software.com/support/p80tools#headercheck
>
>Client...
>http://whatsmyuseragent.com/
>
>cheers,
>R.
>
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