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 sending our custom message as self.send_header('Server', "mohitraj"). The log_date_time_string and send_header methods and the client_address instance variable are inherited from the BaseHTTPRequestHandler class. Here I am sending the mohit raj server name...