Fake web server reply

In this section, you will learn how to create a fake web server signature. This is the application layer code. This section's code has no relation to the previous code. In order to get the server signature or banner grabbing, I am going to use the ID Serve tool.

Let's see the fake_webserver.py code:

  • Use the following modules in the program. The logger1 module is used to create a log file. You will see the code of logger1 later:
   from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer   import logger1
  • Look at the following piece of code carefully. The fakewebserver  class inherits the BaseHTTPRequestHandler class. The send_response method is overriding the method of the BaseHTTPRequestHandler class because we are ...

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