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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!wang!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!matlock.mindspring.com!usenet From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Heh... Date: 30 Aug 1995 19:33:53 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 26 Sender: rsanders@hrothgar.mindspring.com Message-ID: <87eny30xwe.fsf@hrothgar.mindspring.com> References: <41ip4t$900@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <MICHAELV.95Aug24235822@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <DDvnz9.ApM@dexter.mi.org> <MICHAELV.95Aug26221014@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <422sd2$qkt@news.enterprise.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrothgar.mindspring.com In-reply-to: apc@enterprise.net's message of Wed, 30 Aug 95 22:19:38 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.99.27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5120 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:700 On Wed, 30 Aug 95 22:19:38 GMT, apc@enterprise.net (Adrian Cooper) said: > Don't you believe it! The web servers that M$ are running are > unlike any you will find elsewhere, and appears to utilise some > distinctly very non-standard html extensions as well. Um, hold on... $ telnet www.windows.microsoft.com 80 Trying 192.239.17.131... Connected to www.windows.microsoft.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET /foobar HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 404 Not found Server: Netscape-Communications/1.1 Date: Wednesday, 30-Aug-95 23:32:19 GMT Content-length: 207 Content-type: text/html That would be Netscape's Communications server, which is pretty common. And why would a web server care about extensions to HTML? Have I been trolled? -- Robert