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Modern websites use a lot of intermediary servers - caches, load balancers, proxies, and so on. You can try to send the ‘Max-Forwards’ header with your request to limit the amount of servers it will reach. It’s defined in HTTP specs primarily for TRACE and OPTIONS methods, though. It’s not very common, but this may help you figure out the number of intermediary servers, and sometimes you will even see completely different responses - potentially disclosing what kind of servers the request passes through.