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From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Heh...
Date: 30 Aug 1995 19:33:53 -0400
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On Wed, 30 Aug 95 22:19:38 GMT, apc@enterprise.net (Adrian Cooper) said:

> Don't you believe it!  The web servers that M$ are running are
> unlike any you will find elsewhere, and appears to utilise some
> distinctly very non-standard html extensions as well.

Um, hold on...

$ telnet www.windows.microsoft.com 80
Trying 192.239.17.131...
Connected to www.windows.microsoft.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /foobar HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 404 Not found
Server: Netscape-Communications/1.1
Date: Wednesday, 30-Aug-95 23:32:19 GMT
Content-length: 207
Content-type: text/html

That would be Netscape's Communications server, which is pretty
common.  And why would a web server care about extensions to HTML?
Have I been trolled?

  -- Robert