How can I tell which page serves me?

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I am on a website. the URL reads something like https://somesite.com/serve

I need to tell the name of the page that is serving me.

Like index.html, index.htm, etc...

Try and trigger a server error like with a malformed HTTP/1.0 request perhaps it will print the server version or use a tool like this net-square.com/httprint/, If the server is running apache then you can almost guarantee its a php driven site with mod_rewrite, also by looking at the source of a script you can pick out the specific script from similarity's, like with wp. Tho like with most things its almost impossible to be sure unless the info is made public — Lawrence Cherone, Apr 17 '12 at 23:17

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '12 at 23:00

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It is fundamentally impossible for you find that out.

answered Apr 17 '12 at 23:00

SLaks

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What about using a bookmarklet? Javascript can return the URL – Paul Dessert Apr 17 '12 at 23:01
@Paul: There's still no reliable way to map a URL to a file. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 17 '12 at 23:03
Ok, how is this done then ? How can my browser possibly not know the page name it is accessing? is that not fundamental HTTP ? – Ted Apr 17 '12 at 23:03
HTTP has **nothing** to do with what file the data is coming from. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 17 '12 at 23:04
@Ted: HTTP has nothing to do with files. – SLaks Apr 17 '12 at 23:04
Pinterest does it all day long ;) – Paul Dessert Apr 17 '12 at 23:05
I thought the file was the resource requested by regular GET. Are you saying that through .htaccess you can change the way the URL looks to the user? – Ted Apr 17 '12 at 23:06
HTTP deals with **URLs**. What backing the URL has is none of HTTP's business. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 17 '12 at 23:07
So that leaves me kind of clueless about that. – Ted Apr 17 '12 at 23:08
@Ted: Yes you can totally rewrite a url to something completely different – Dale Apr 17 '12 at 23:13
Use .htaccess RewriteRule to put regex-matching filenames in a header. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9309102/setting-a-filename-inside-the-header-with-htaccess/9319408#9319408 – hellork Mar 26 '19 at 03:02

Jānis Gruzis · Answer 2 · 2012-04-17T23:18:24.057

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You want to know the file that is being served. Well probably you are facing url rewrite with htaccess or other techniques. To tell which file it is probably is impossible if only you manage to get framework (if it is framework) in which the page is made. Then you can read in documentation which is the file to which the requests are aimed. Most frameworks will have one or several of these files. For example codeignighter will have only index.php, while symfony 2 will have app.php and app_dev.php (and others if you want different environments). But normaly you cant know which file serves your request if url rewrite is made.

As mentioned @Dale you cant also beleave what urls say. Because you cant stick some extension at the end for it to look as file. Sometimes you can notice .php or more often .html / .htm at the end.

edited Apr 17 '12 at 23:18

answered Apr 17 '12 at 23:08

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And it may not even be using PHP in the first place. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 17 '12 at 23:09
But could use the file extension .php even if it isn't! – Dale Apr 17 '12 at 23:11
Yes. That is due to HTTP. Response Headers wont contain this inteligence. And all softwares using this protocol will lack this information. – Jānis Gruzis Apr 17 '12 at 23:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 17 '12 at 23:01

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I'm not entirely sure what you mean. But I'm certain you can find it with $_SERVER (Documentation can be found here)

Good luck

answered Apr 17 '12 at 23:01

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 17 '12 at 23:01

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If you just trying to find out the page name then you can do this:

<?php
$currentFile = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
$parts = explode('/', $currentFile);
echo $parts[count($parts) - 1];
?>

answered Apr 17 '12 at 23:01

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 17 '12 at 23:05

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probably then you have a .htaccess with rewrite rules which looks something like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Else you probably would have query string instead which probably looked something like:

index.php?c=products&m=view&id=345

answered Apr 17 '12 at 23:05

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What has the CodeIgniter user guide htaccess file got to do with this question? :-) – Dale Apr 17 '12 at 23:06
That's not what the question is though. – Dale Apr 17 '12 at 23:08
The rewrite rule would probably tell you more. But you are right. It is not the best answer... – Alfred Apr 17 '12 at 23:09

hellork · Answer 6 · 2019-03-26T22:19:18.493

(Assuming server supports .htaccess, mod_rewrite, mod_headers)

Temporarily use .htaccess RewriteRule to reveal all or matching filenames in a header.

Example tags all php file headers with filename:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        RewriteRule .*\.php$ - [E=FILENAME:$0]
        <FilesMatch ".php$">
           Header set MY-COOL-FILENAME "filename=%{FILENAME}e"
        </FilesMatch>
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>

Links

Setting a filename inside the header with htaccess

View HTTP headers in Google Chrome?

How can I tell which page serves me?

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