At 10:08 PM +0100 1/29/06, Gustav Wiberg wrote:
Hi guys!
How can you check if a domain (that you don't own), can run PHP-code?
Is it possible?
/G
@varupiraten.se
Answer 1:
Call them, fax them, email them, IM them, or check their website.
This is the only way to know for sure.
Answer 2:
Check http://netcraft.com/
I don't know all the tools they use to record server information, but
I presume that it includes methods like Answer 3 below.
Answer 3:
If you want to do this via a program, the answer is - in general, no.
However, many servers will return an HTTP header containing this
info. Also, (at least on Apache) server signatures may be set to
reveal this info on error displays. You could open a socket
connection to port 80 of the desired domain, and issue a HEAD
request. You'll have to parse the results for Server and/or
X-Powered-By and possibly other headers. Here's some examples via
telnet:
telnet <domain deleted> 80
Trying <ip address deleted>...
Connected to <domain deleted>.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:23:03 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
telnet <domain deleted> 80
Trying <ip address deleted>...
Connected to <domain deleted>.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 403 Access Forbidden
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:32:26 GMT
Content-Length: 4126
Content-Type: text/html
telnet <domain deleted> 80
Trying <ip address deleted>...
Connected to <domain deleted>.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:36:52 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10
Location: index_html.html
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
However, many servers are set to not reveal this info for security
purposes; it could also be spoofed for the same reason. For example,
the second site above (the IIS one) actually *does* support PHP
according to their website. See
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php
for info on opening & reading from sockets; there is an example on
this page in the user comments about sending HTTP HEAD requests.
steve
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