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- Jnr_Madison0
Google found the dugard girl.
- Shaney0
block the folder in a robots .txt file, Google does obey them
http://www.robotstxt.org/robotst…& password protect the directory as siad earlier
- clients tend to forget what?jimbojones
- passwords!jimbojones
- yep, trueShaney
- detritus0
forgetit.
- mikotondria30
clients do tend to forget passwords, true - I usually say 'tough - if this project is important to you, write down the f'n password'.
Other times I have sniffed their ip and put an include etc in place that only allows their and my ip to access the work...- Not a bad idea.detritus
- Really though - I was just curious about my assumptions in the first place.detritus
- I've often wondered exactly what you posted, tbh - good thread.mikotondria3
- ********0
given enough time it is possible, by trying all possible letter combinations with a script
thats one of the ways spammers gather email addresses
short email addresses of length up to 4-5 characters are very popular, and are the first to be covered
- detritus0
Aye, I figured a brute force attack would be the only other route - but that'd ping up like Hiroshima in webstats.
- Corvo20
I did a site once for the Deep Amnesiacs European Association. None of the associates remembered to visit it. Nor pay me.
- ukit0
Why would you need to resort to something like /skjdgfjhsghfjdgsk?
Just create a password protected area of your site if need be.
- His clients tend to forget passwords, he remembered to add.Corvo2
- It's an example? Obviously I sue something the client would remember?detritus
- This assumes there is someone rooting around your site, which is not all that likely, just name the folder anything.ukit
- Nevermind;)ukit
- My thoughts exactly.detritus
- haha, we're playing ketchup tennis here :)detritus
- Corvo20
maybe a re-dir within that folder to another folder probably wouldn't get bot'd in email or im.
- detritus0
Basically - it's as I thought -
Aside from server hack, bruteforce guesswork or inadvertent link publication, there's no practical way for a non-publicised web directory to become visible to the Greater Internet.
- if you don't use text in a page within, it will be very hard to find.Corvo2
- Even if it did have text - how could it be found?detritus
- Google's bruteforcer is epicjimbojones
- yep Google can find it. but will stay out with robots.txt file and not list itShaney