[plug] Liberal Party website - Query

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi David;

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, David Dartnall wrote:

> Jason wrote:
> > And apparently it's a "hack" now.
> >
> > http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22561539-2,00.html
> >
> > Stupid media.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:55:21AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> >
> >> Michael Baker wrote:
> >>
> >>> I know its a lil off topic but I seen this come up at work today :)
> >>> ...%20like%20to%20suck%20dick!%5C%22%3C/i%3E%3C/center%3E%22%3C%2Fscript%3E
> >>>
> >> Ah progress!  When I was a kiddie all we had was:
> >> 	10 PRINT FRASER IS A WANKER
> >> 	20 GOTO 10
> >>
> >> How much more sophisticated it is now.
> >> And yet how little things change.
> >>
> How do you determine the OS on the Liberal Party server?

A look at the HTTP header usually gives the info. For instance:

HEAD www.liberal.org.au
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:45:04 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Client-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:45:17 GMT
Client-Peer: 203.84.229.85:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Set-Cookie: CFID=21690;expires=Fri, 02-Oct-2037 15:45:04 GMT;path=/
Set-Cookie: CFTOKEN=86998566;expires=Fri, 02-Oct-2037 15:45:04 GMT;path=/
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>
> In the event that it's M$ this may be a good opportunity to give Linux a
> plug.
> Less susceptible to this type of attack?
> And suggest that a Party which ostensibly espouses free trade might well
> have a look at some of the more enlightened software now freely
> available in the world.
> Do their IT experts make a lot of sense in what they say?
> A job for some of our lot to tackle - needs more technical savvy than
> what I've got.
>
> There is a 'comments' panel available.
>
> Dave Dartnall

Cheers

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