Have you seen the hidden character on Yahoo Answers question pages?

Click to the immediate right of the header text %26quot;Accepting Answers%26quot; above, and drag to the right. This will reveal a single letter of the alphabet.

Spooky eh.

I think it must be used to show what web server is used to host that page.

Have you seen the hidden character on Yahoo Answers question pages?

Yes, I see it. How is that supposed to tell you what server YA is using? The element is a %26lt;span class=%26quot;y-ks-debug-style%26quot;%26gt;.

The relevant item from Yahoo%26#039;s stylesheet is:

.y-ks-debug-style {color:#fff;font-size:10px;} /* set display:none for production */

Looks like they%26#039;re using a pre-production stylesheet; the comment told them what they needed to do before going live with it, but they didn%26#039;t. As for the server, my version of nmap can%26#039;t identify it, but it looks like it%26#039;s being run on an x86_64 version of RedHat, so probably Apache 2.x.

Have you seen the hidden character on Yahoo Answers question pages?

no

Other Replys:ooooh - I got a Q! Weird!

Other Replys:No and why couldn%26#039;t you show me around i had this for about two months almost but just got into this stuff/

Other Replys:Wow! That%26#039;s cool! Thanks for the info!

Other Replys:whoa.....

Other Replys:woah!!!

now i feel so complete!!!

Other Replys:I just tried it and found a q

Other Replys:Oh that is cool:) How in the world did u happen 2 stumble across that???

Other Replys:I just did and there was a lower case Q in between 2 blue lines. I have no clue what it means.

Other Replys:Hmmn....very interesting.

Other Replys:interesting I got the q also

Other Replys:I%26#039;m at the end of the q!

Other Replys:ok

Other Replys:q oooooooer!!!!!

Other Replys:Really. I never have noticed it. But thank you for telling us..

Other Replys:yeah i got a q too. how did u discover that??

Other Replys:yes a lower case q !!!!! (how on earth did you come across that little gem ?????? )

Other Replys:i got a q weird or what?

Other Replys:I got a baby q. How did you find this out?

Other Replys:Yes, I got a q on this page.

Then I tried on some of the other pages, and got a k for discover closed questions and a v for voting undecided questions!

Well spotted!

Other Replys:oooh spooky lol!

Other Replys:Yeah I got a q too.

Other Replys:Yeah, I got a small q, too.

So, Big Brother is watching us all?

Other Replys:Yep your right.I found %26quot;k%26quot; on another page,and there is a %26quot;v%26quot;out there as well