[Catalyst] Can you tell if a server is running Catalyst?

Daniel McBrearty danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
Wed May 17 15:50:17 CEST 2006


I also like this feature. To my mind, the less is visible about how the site
is implemented, the better, from POV of security.


On 5/17/06, John Napiorkowski <jjn1056 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm, I guess there is no other way other than to write
> the web admin of the site in question (if her email is
> even listed).  Actually it's probably good that
> catalyst apps are just web apps that blend in to web
> standards.  You can always tell when people are using
> asp.net because of all the .aspx files and so forth
> but web best practices say that uris should be
> meaningful and there should be no file extensions.  So
> Catalyst makes it easy to have this good practice and
> in general you can't tell it's catalyst just by
> looking at the type of URL's or by viewing the source
> code.  --john
>
> --- Marcello Romani <mromani at ottotecnica.com> wrote:
>
> > John Napiorkowski ha scritto:
> > > I'm not sure if you got a answer to this but one
> > way I
> > > can think of is to telnet to port 80 on the site
> > and
> > > perform a get / and see the header responses.  I'm
> > > running the catalyst test server and it responds
> > with
> > > a catalyst [version] in the http headers.
> > >
> > > However I don't think this will work if you are
> > > running catalyst via apache mod_perl or fastcgi
> > since
> > > when I don't think the catalyst apache engine
> > passes
> > > any headers with the word Catalyst in them.  Since
> > I'm
> > > not running catalyst in production yet I can't
> > test my
> > > idea out for you.  Let me know what you find!
> > --john
> > >
> > > --- Ryan <god at detz.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Is there a way to see that...I think this new
> > site
> > >> had it running but
> > >> I'm not sure. :)
> > >>
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> > I have tried some of the websites mentioned in the
> > catalyst homepage,
> > but it seems that no information about catalyst gets
> > through...
> >
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