[olug] get web server host name

[Dan Linder]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com>
wrote:

> We do something similar for load balancers and just use an apache
> directive to put the server's hostname into the headers.
>

In a past life (Hi CoSentry/IPRevolution guys!) I had to prove to a customer
that our load balancer was working.  What we did was make a call to "
http://wwwXX.domain.com/serverimage.gif", and then put a unique color or
image on each server.  It's not a nice as having easily parsable output
(i.e. "<!-- server A -->") in the HTML code, but it sure made it evident
what back-end server served the page/image.

Dan

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