How to check that Which language has been used to develop a web page

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If I open a Website page then Is there any way to check that which language(asp/php/html) has been used to develop that web page.

Please provide me a satisfactory answer.

Posted 20-Jan-11 18:46pm

rashidfarooq

Updated 3-Jun-22 21:47pm

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Sandeep Mewara 21-Jan-11 0:58am

No idea why the question was downvoted. Countered!

Dukhabandhu Sahoo 12-Sep-14 2:06am

There is a similar question at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/396739/how-do-you-determine-what-technology-a-website-is-built-on

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I tried out the site you mentioned and if the server wasn't outright lying to me this is what I got via Fiddler2:

Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Unix)
    mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5
    mod_auth_passthrough/2.1
    mod_bwlimited/1.4
    FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
    mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.8

From this I could assume that the website is run via perl CGI scripts running on an Apache webserver under Unix, but then again why should I trust what some webserver tells me. :-D

As has been said before me, it is impossible to say even when file extensions .aspx .ashx .pl and .php or whatever are present it doesn't mean a thing.

Cheers!

Manfred

Posted 23-Jan-11 13:39pm

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

Solution 10

byte arr[] = toByteArray(str);


       long polynomial = 0xA001;
       long CRC = 0xFFFF;

       for (byte b : arr)
       {
           CRC ^= b;
           for (int i = 8; i != 0; i--)
           {
               if ((CRC & 0x0001) != 0)
               {
                   CRC = (CRC >> 1) ^ polynomial;
               }
               else
               {
                   CRC >>= 1;
               }
           }
       }

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Patrice T 4-Jun-22 3:52am

Try to ask a question.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-20T19:03:00

ASP is not a language. All right, ASP and NET is server-side technology, and all use HTML.
Nevertheless, the question makes sense, even though it looks like comparison of apples and oranges.

Strict answer is: no way! If you look at the page from the the client side or HTML source code, you cannot see any differences in principle -- all is hidden in server side and generated by HTTP server supporting one or more server-side modules.

In practice, indirectly, you can draw a conclusion: page name ending with ".aspx" is usually ASP.NET, ".php" - written in PHP. You can also look at the HTML source code and pay attention for the style, richness of the feature set and the like. If you know traditional styles and other aspect of developer's life, you can do some guesswork. Finally, some sites explicitly claim on the page: "Powered with ABC technology".

(By the way, there is a very common style (which I personally like) when no extensions are used. All URLs resembles "directory names" without extension. One of the Python server-side models even require this style via "URL traversing", even though the server-side script code does not have those "directories", can be even a single file.)

But! It does not guarantee correct answer! In principle, any of server-side language can perfectly imitate behavior of another. Again, everything is hidden on the server part, only resulting generated HTML code (more exactly, output of HTTP protocol, because also there are headers) is surfaced to the HTML client.

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