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Jul. 21st, 2005 09:58 amVector > del.icio.us/popular
An interesting article on Using google to find password files served up by a server, brought up an interesting thing that I never knew. I knew that servers could include a list of files that they want search engines to ignore. I didn't know that the filename was standard and could be searched for using Google, to see the directories and files that people don't want the search engines to see, but are nonetheless published:
Try it!
Edit: It doesn't work with Livejournal, in case you've chosen the "block robots and spiders from accessing your journal" option, and were about to write off to abuse complaining about how it is useless.
An interesting article on Using google to find password files served up by a server, brought up an interesting thing that I never knew. I knew that servers could include a list of files that they want search engines to ignore. I didn't know that the filename was standard and could be searched for using Google, to see the directories and files that people don't want the search engines to see, but are nonetheless published:
Try it!
Edit: It doesn't work with Livejournal, in case you've chosen the "block robots and spiders from accessing your journal" option, and were about to write off to abuse complaining about how it is useless.
