Your mission today, if you decide to accept it, is to go under cover with a Firefox extension and find out what type of server a Web site is running. This mission will not be a dangerous one. Actually this process couldn’t get more simple. If you have always wanted to know what is “under the hood” of your favorite Web site, this is the extension to get.

Want more information from headquarters? This is what the developer of this Server Spy Firefox extension has to say:

Server Spy indicates what brand of HTTP server (eg. Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited sites. When a tab is selected, the corresponding server name is shown on the right-hand side of the browser’s status bar.

Feeling like a secret agent man already? Well I know this should at least tickle the fancy of a few Web hosting folks out and around the world. They live for this type of geeky information.

This Firefox extension is for versions 1.5 and up of the browser. To try it out for yourself, be sure to sneak into the Mozilla Update Web site and download it. If you are lucky, none of the secret Mozilla ninjas will notice you.

This article will self-destruct in ten, nine, eight… just kidding!

[tags]firefox,extensions,servers,server spy[/tags]