I saw some discussion on Twitter and other places that the new whitehouse.gov site uses ASP.NET. Of course, I wasn't going to just accept it without finding out for sure. So I checked, and sure enough it does.

There are many ways to find out this information. The way I did was to use the Live HTTP Headers in Firefox, and go to www.whitehouse.gov. And sure enough -- the tell-tale ".aspx" was present in several places. Indeed it's true.

In fact, all the usual web servers give out quite a bit of information in their headers by default. Here's are two that I see:

Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727

That means the server is IIS 6.0 and it's running ASP.NET 2.0.50727. (I'm not sure why they chose IIS 6.0. and not 7, but who's complaining.)

(Maybe next we can get President Obama to do an advertisement for ASP.NET...?)

Here's a guy that did some more research on the headers and a rather complete analysis: http://dotnetperls.com/Content/whitehouse-gov-Site.aspx .

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