Server tracking

[Anon]

Hi,

How do I write a code to check what kind of server a site is using?? Is it possible to check the status of a mailbox? If yes, how?

Thanks,
Nikki

[Anon]

first use the getallheader() (apache specific function) to get the header from the server. Then all the header will contain in a array, then a line of the header should look likes
servername: XXXXXXXX
use ereg to get it out and that is.

[Anon]

If your script is looking to get info from another server, just execute an HTTP HEAD request, using fsockopen, and then parse the returned server headers you get from it.
There are several scripts that do that already, look in the source repositories and in the mailing list archive.

As for reading email, if the mail server is using IMAP or POP3, you can use the IMAP functions of PHP to do that. See projects like IMP and TWIG for some code examples.

HTH