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Searching for news.ycombinator.com, I get:

ERROR: Web server not shown in header.

If I search ycombinator.com, I get:

Apache/2.2.14

In the first case, I would recommend either parsing the user input to try and return some reasonable results, or just return a more direct error message.

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But they do run on different web servers. The first is a custom Arc-based web service, the latter an Apache install. What could be a more direct error message than stating plainly that the information isn't available?

I don't know, maybe something accurate? Like "server header not understood by beowulf.com"?

Thank you benatkin. That's a more appropriate message to display.

I just did the same thing, and therefore have the exact same suggestion.

Looks like a cool little service, however.

Thanks jlgosse.

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