[PLUG] what IP does a web page come from

Ed Sawicki ed at alcpress.com
Sat Sep 27 18:09:02 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:40, Carla Schroder wrote:
> How do you tell what server a particular Web page is from? Let's say the 
> identical page is on two different servers, on two different networks- how do 
> you know which one? (No, you cannot change one, it is not under your control)
> 
There's no easy way to know unless your Web browser stores
that information with the page when the page is loaded. I've
never seen one expose that information to you via the user
interface and I've never seen IP addresses in browser caches
but it could be there in binary and I would not have noticed.
It's possible that the IP address is in a cookie sent by the
site but you couldn't rely on this.

Web browsers don't generally keep log files so you're
out of luck there.  

I maintain mirrored servers and I try to put the server
identity as meta information in the <head> section of pages.

Ed


> thanks!





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