How to hide the server version?

[Marcos Neves]

But what if I change my token to an apache2 version?
How can somebody found that it´s nginx, and not apache, cherokee, lighttpd
or any other server?

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Alan Williamson <alan at blog-city.com> wrote:

> Marcos Neves wrote:
>
>> Can you explain me why it´s not more secure?
>>
>
> because if someone is really that keen to attack you, they can quickly
> figure out which version you are running by running through a number of
> permutations, since nginx has only a limited version history.
>
> by process of elimination the would-be hacker would soon realise which
> version they would be trying to get into .
>
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