telnet can be used to connect you to servername on a specified port. You can gather information from the data returned from that connection:<\/p>\n
telnet servername.com port<\/p>\n
Then type:<\/p>\n
HEAD \/ HTTP\/1.0<\/p>\n
bash-3.2# telnet 310.210.7.222 80
\nTrying 310.210.7.222…
\nConnected to servername.com.
\nEscape character is ‘^]’.
\nHEAD \/ HTTP\/1.0<\/p>\n
HTTP\/1.1 200 OK
\nDate: Fri, 20 May 2016 15:00:24 GMT
\nServer: Apache\/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
\nX-Powered-By: PHP\/5.3.3
\nConnection: close
\nContent-Type: text\/html; charset=UTF-8<\/p>\n
You can see from this example, that the Apache version and the PHP version are available via this method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
telnet can be used to connect you to servername on a specified port. You can gather information from the data returned from that connection: telnet servername.com port Then type: HEAD \/ HTTP\/1.0 bash-3.2# telnet 310.210.7.222 80 Trying 310.210.7.222… Connected to … Continue reading