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Fri, 02 Dec 2005

Fun Response Header finds

Using Firefox's web developer extension, I have been having fun using it to find unusual response headers.

Example 1: Hamsters in the works
Response Headers - http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:54:00 GMT
Server: Apache
Accept-Ranges: bytes
GUpoweredBy: X-GUHTTPD-HAMSTER25
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

200 OK
Example 2: DISCLAIM! DISCLAIM!
Response Headers - http://www.philippines.hvu.nl/

Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:10:27 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/3.0.16 mod_perl/1.25 mod_ssl/2.6.5 OpenSSL/0.9.5a
X-Disclaimer: The local sysadmins have *nothing* to do with the content of this server.
Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:09:49 GMT
Etag: "e805d-5a65-437a4e9d"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 23141
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html

200 OK
The Plains Cotton Cooperative Association is self-promotional:
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:16:13 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Cotton: The Fabric of Our Lives
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Content-Length: 4884
Content-Type: text/html
Cache-Control: private

200 OK

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