Is there a generic way to see what is a website running on ?

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Published on 2009-02-18T23:21:10Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 12:49 UTC
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Maybe like whoishostingthis.com can tell you who is the ISP of a website. Is there a way to find-out what is a website running on ? (so like I can see that stackoverflow.com is running on Rails v9.3.2.1 and digg.com is running mostly drupal but with many customizations )

Thanks.

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