Ever seen an awesome website but you have been left to wonder and more often than not guess the technology using which the website is built? Sometimes, the technology being used becomes apparent by looking at the URLs. However, the programming language and technology can be hidden by URL re-writing. The HTTP response headers, cookies, style-sheets and source comments may also give clues as in to which technology is being used.
Some nice tools for finding out the technology behind: (not an exhaustive list)
* BuiltWith
* DomainTools
Some nice tools for finding out the technology behind: (not an exhaustive list)
* BuiltWith
* DomainTools
* NetCraft
Firefox addons:
* Domain Details - IP, country and webserver details
* Library Detector - Javascript libraries in use
If you wish to reverse engineer a website and perhaps even replicate some of the good features that they have used, go ahead, find out how it is built first. One question though -- would you use jQuery? =)
