19 Jul
2007
19 Jul
'07
5:53 a.m.
Has anyone else read this short tech news piece? Wow, how do they do that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/07/ebuyer_runs_site_on_commodore64/
Best, David
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9:39 a.m.
On 7/19/07, David Greelish <dgreelish at mac.com> wrote:
Has anyone else read this short tech news piece? Wow,
how do they do that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/07/ebuyer_runs_site_on_commodore64/
Presumably by tweaking the string inside Apache that self-reports the platform.
In 1995-1996, I ran a webserver on my Amiga, but there's plenty of
memory, a network interface, a decent C environment, etc., available
to AmigaDOS. It's not impossible to run a webserver on a C-64 (it's
been done several times already), but I'd say that you aren't likely
to be running _Apache_ on an 8-bit 1980s micro, even if you do slap on
a couple megs of peripheral RAM and an Ethernet interface (or use
SLIP/PPP).
-ethan
9:41 a.m.
David Greelish wrote:
Has anyone else read this short tech news piece? Wow,
how do they do that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/07/ebuyer_runs_site_on_commodore64/
How do they do it? They hack their Apache to show a fake identifier.
Peace... Sridhar
11:17 a.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
How do they do it? They hack their Apache to show a
fake identifier.
That's exactly what they've done. If you want to experience an actual
Commodore 64 being used as a web server, check out:
http://www.c64web.com/
--
Golan Klinger <gklinger at gmail.com>
Dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
11:26 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:53:08AM -0700, David Greelish wrote:
Has anyone else read this short tech news piece? Wow,
how do they do that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/07/ebuyer_runs_site_on_commodore64/
Thats easy, the just set up their Apache to show a "slightly modified"
version string, thats all.
A few years ago I had my local squid cache set up so it would replace
the UserAgent string in HTTP requests proxied through it with something
like 'TerminalWeb 1.5; Multics; 36 bits' - it was very interesting to
see which poorly created web sites this broke (because they relied on
the UserAgent string to show you browser specific content).
Regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
11:56 a.m.
Alexander Schreiber wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:53:08AM -0700, David
Greelish wrote:
I did something similar to make my Mozilla Seamonkey appear to be
Internet Explorer. It's amazing how many lazy web developers create web
pages that reject non-IE browsers, but when tested, their sites work
fine with Mozilla.
Peace... Sridhar
Has anyone else read this short tech news piece?
Wow, how do they do that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/07/ebuyer_runs_site_on_commodore64/
Thats easy, the just set up their Apache to show a "slightly modified"
version string, thats all.
A few years ago I had my local squid cache set up so it would replace
the UserAgent string in HTTP requests proxied through it with something
like 'TerminalWeb 1.5; Multics; 36 bits' - it was very interesting to
see which poorly created web sites this broke (because they relied on
the UserAgent string to show you browser specific content).
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