Ubuntu Forums - FYI

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2013-07-22 07:29, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 22/07/13 01:50, Matthew Sturdy wrote:
>>
>> On 21 July 2013 11:25, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au 
>> <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     What I am surprised about is that I would have expected an
>>     avalanche of posts stating that vBulletin is being run on a 
>> server
>>     using Linux but so far no one has come up with such an assurance
>>     which indicates to me that Windows is involved.
>>
>>
>> looks like Ubuntu from here:
>>
>> $ curl -I �http://ubuntuforums.org/
>> HTTP/1.1 302 Found
>> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:49:25 GMT
>> *Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)*
>> Location: http://ubuntuforums.org/announce.html
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>> �
>>
>>
>  Interesting in that just before I went to bed I had a browse thru
> the vBulletin site and found the entry that (paraphrased as I didn't
> capture it, silly me), "At the present time Apache is not supported".
> However, just now as I was about to reply I went back to get a
> snapshot of what I read last night to quote here and that entry had
> disappeared!
>
> However, what you show above does not negate the possibility that
> Windows is being used because Apache is also available for Windows.
> And the "(Ubuntu)" after the "Apache/2.2.22" is only the title given
> to the forum.
>
> BC
>

It is not the forum title, it is part of the web server reply header. 
See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#page-141
And yes ofc the web server administration can change it into anything 
they like, but usually you either display "the truth" or you don't 
display anything at all. (Unless you are Microsoft and don't want to 
admit that your servers are not running on Windows).

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman