Microsoft/Unisys Unix-bashing Site Runs FreeBSD

Posted by michael on Tuesday April 2, 2002 @02:05AM from the hoist-by-own-petard dept.

Several people sent in variations on this: "Kind of ironic to see that the the site, dubbed WeHaveTheWayOut from Microsoft and Unisys runs on an Apache Web server powered by FreeBSD. This could have made a great April Fools joke, unfortunately for Microsoft, you can verify it by using Netcraft." This is a follow-up to the original story a few days ago. Other readers noted that there's already a WeHaveTheWayIn site up. Wehavethewayout.com was returning Apache headers yesterday; today it's returning "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0", so it appears they've dumped FreeBSD in a hurry, or maybe just changed the headers.

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FOOLS by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-02 03:30 · Score: 0, Troll

You fools. This is bullshit. The least you could have done is verified the story first. It's not hard. Just telnet to port 80, and hit enter twice. It will spit a header out at you tellin what the OS and web server is. Ha! Fools!

They are running IIS 5 which means they are running Windows 2000 Server.

Here is a copy of the header:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:25:25 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 87

ErrorThe parameter is incorrect.
Re:Conspiracy. by i_luv_linux · 2002-04-02 03:31 · Score: 0, Troll

Did you notice that the Microsoft's web server is far more faster than the Free BSD?