Get Webserver Response Headers Via XMLHTTP

You can get the response headers from any public web server using the XMLHTTP object. This example is limited to this website, but you can run this to determine what server another website is running and to inspect the response headers sent to you from that server.

Connection: close Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:09:16 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Content-Length: 19826 Content-Type: text/html; Charset=UTF-8 Expires: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:09:14 GMT Cache-control: no-store

<%
Session.CodePage=65001
Response.Charset="UTF-8"
Response.Buffer = True

Dim objH, respHeaders

' Create an xmlhttp object:
Set objH = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

' Opens the connection to the remote server.
objH.Open "GET", "http://www.rodsdot.com/", False
objH.Send

respHeaders = objH.getAllResponseHeaders()
Set objH = nothing
%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">

<head>
<title>Response Headers</title>
</head>

<body>
<p><%=respHeaders%>
</body>

</html>

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