[7248] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Web server name?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auerbach)
Fri Jan 20 01:42:37 1995
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 07:10:37 +0100
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Reply-To: karl@cavebear.com
From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> Thus, it's occurred to us that we'd like to see a way to ask a server
> "What's your name?" and get back something like "Verity Corporate
> Information."
>
> Is anyone else thinking about this? Shall we just forge ahead and make a
> proposal for a way to implement this? I'm thinking that perhaps it should
> be an element in the header of the default document. Ideas?
I usually fire off an SNMP query and ask the machine that way.
A fair number of 'em answer.
--karl--
