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Re: What technologies are under your site

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nmap OS fingerprinting seems a bit aggressive, but reverse-DNS checking seems like a great way to check which hosting platform a site uses.

nmap is too aggressive. It's a prelude to actual hacking attempts and labeled by IDS systems as such. Don't use it for this or you may end up in legal trouble.

Agreed. UnderTheSite makes a specific point of only considering information that would be returned when a user's browser hits a website. It doesn't scan or probe ports / urls.

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Ah! This is a feature that I plan to add. Do you want to select technologies from a list, or write free-form text about your technology stack?

I'd like to suggest avoiding manual additions of technology for as long as possible. Focus on adding more ways to match specific technologies. After all, a site could always advertise more technologies in server headers or meta generator tags.

What if we propose an extension to humans.txt called technologies.txt where a site can self-describe their stack?

Re: What technologies are under your site

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I'd like to suggest avoiding manual additions of technology for as long as possible. Focus on adding more ways to match specific technologies. After all, a site could always advertise more technologies in server headers or meta generator tags.

What if we propose an extension to humans.txt called technologies.txt where a site can self-describe their stack?

A mechanism for sites themselves to advertise their stack seems like a great idea (though I'd prefer it not occur via fixed URLs like humans.txt or robots.txt, but via headers or meta tags). I'd just suggest not allowing arbitrary additions to a site's stack without any way to verify them.

Re: What technologies are under your site

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It says that my company's site [1] is running ASP.NET on Microsoft IIS, which it's not. To be fair, it also mentions Ruby on Rails, Apache, and Phusion Passenger, which are all correct. Aside from these minor glitches, this is a pretty cool project. [1] http://identified.com

This should be fixed now.

Re: What technologies are under your site

#97
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To test the d3 matcher I just added, I tried the following URLs and get the error "Sorry, we were unable to reach the site": http://whatdoyouworkfor.appspot.com/index.html http://dustinphoto.iriscouch.com/gerrit/_design/app/index.ht... I could reach them with no problems. These sites are just from some comments on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746449

So index.html is treated the same as /, and you return a 404 on /.
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