I just noticed Urge.com featured on del.icio.us, and decided to check what it’s all about (though, considering that the music is MTV, I am not a potential customer). Frankly, it is probably worth it all to see them promoting a site with such a stupid name. No, really, it even tops Vista and achieves the status of the dumbest microsoft name ever (until next time).
The site itself was still closed, but I suddenly had an idea: since the site is a collaboration between Microsoft and MTV, one could not know which of them hosts the site, and weather MTV uses IIS or Apache. Wh not check?
Anyway, telenetting to it on port 80 produces the following page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.mtv.com/">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) Server at misc-web-3.811.mtvi.com Port 80</address>
</body></html>
A microsoft site that runs Apache2 on Unix. Now we just need an MTV exec to confess their love for classical music… (anyone?)
update:Someone pointed out that the site’s header tell yet another story:
HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1
Content-Type: text/html
Etag: "4e834d27-1-31e-43b44e3f"
Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:59:43 GMT
Content-Length: 798
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Expires: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:27:27 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:27:27 GMT
Connection: keep-alive