Server: Viper/0.25 et.al.

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@webweaving.org>]

Has anyone come across a server with that token ? It seems to inherit bugs
from apache; but call's itself a bit different. Right now I am strugging
with it in a black box mode and would like to know what it is and/or how
to suggest the admin what to fix.

Dw

Re: Server: Viper/0.25 et.al.

[James Sutherland <ja...@cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:

> Has anyone come across a server with that token ?

Not AFAICT; Netcraft doesn't know about "Viper", and I haven't found any
references to it yet...

The only relevant "server" I could find was a banner-ad server of that
name, now deceased - but that ran as a Win32 CGI under IIS.

> It seems to inherit bugs from apache;

Interesting. Any ideas which version of Apache??

> but call's itself a bit different. Right now I am strugging
> with it in a black box mode and would like to know what it is and/or how
> to suggest the admin what to fix.

Well, knowing what is wrong would help ;-)

I take it you have a copy of this software running a site ATM, and you
want to know how to reconfigure it?

Does Netcraft just shrug, or has it any clues??

Knowing what platform, how old etc. could also help... HTTP/1.0 or 1.1?

The low version number could suggest it's an early/experimental server...
If it were a proprietary/closed source fork of Apache still in
development, this would explain the lack of references to it - but then,
how do you have a copy you don't know about?


James.