When you say someone's got to know, I need to correct you right from the beginning. Nobody will know, they will only guess. It is impossible to know unless you hacked into their server.
it seems custom. i totally disagree with this: there are many ways to be sure that script is custom or not including meta tags, comments and etc.
Not if you are smart enough to remove them. And, if it's a back end php or asp script, there's no reason that any mention of it needs to be on the page your browser receives. All that is executed on the server completely independent of any html page the script sends you when it's done. The only thing you would see in terms of any script name or location would be the form action attribute, which still wouldn't really tell you a lot unless it was going to some known template sort of address. So i still think this is an unreasonable expectations on the part of the asker.
well not all people all PHP/ASP/... experts to remove them! says who? go check wordpress, joomla and many other scripts including this very VBulletin that we are using now and you'll see the script's name in the source! and footer!
Well, I think we are misunderstanding each other vBulletin 3.6.7 is not the name of a script. That's an entire software package. We are looking for "specificScriptName.php or .asp or .pl if we are referring to a script name.
Because, even if you know it's bulletin xyz software or whatever, you'll never see the actual scripts names contained within and you'll probably never even see the source code if it is an executable or compiled application. It's done for good reason so that people don't steal snippets of their code.
Well again, I think we're misunderstanding each other. You don't see what generates the html source. You don't see the code that writes the html page (if it's not manually created), you only see the resulting html that it generates and at best, a reference to a software package if that's how the entire app was created.
thanks for the help guys, but i found out that it was a rip off script from snapdrive so im going to stay away from searching for it
1?<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 2?<head> 3?<base id="base_url" href="http://www.uploadlord.com/" /> 4?<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 5?<title>Uploader</title> 6?<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="templates/default2/style.css" media="all"> Or are you speaking of something else?
meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.6.7" I saw this already and I already said this when I told you this was the name of an application but not a specific script. Please look back. Thank you.
i'm not sure i understand what your saying! but if i was to find out what is this script wouldn't i be able to know saw by this line?!
You would know the name of the entire software package. If it's just a simple, invididual custom back end script, (something.php or something.asp, then that is the name of an actual script performing the work. but if you notice, that name you referenced has no file extension, which means it's the name of a complete software package, and not the name of an individual script. There is absolutely no reason or place to reference an indiviidual scripot at all except if it is being called by the form action. They might have to put that name their on the meta tag before their software will work, which would force people to give them credit, or their application credit for building the site. But it's not really much different than wsywigs putting their name in a meta tag as well. Anyway, I still never found out how he found out what that site was using. THAT part I would be very much interested to hear.