[47312] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spiderspace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Tue Jan 16 14:47:13 1996
From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:22:11 -0600
To: ecarp@tssun5.dsccc.com (Ed Carp @ TSSUN5)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, tcmay@got.net
In-Reply-To: <9601161853.AA13284@tssun5.>
Ed Carp writes:
> ... I was under the impression that the only documents that most web crawlers
> will search are documents that are link-accessible. Are you saying that this
> isn't true? Are you saying that Alta-Vista will search EVERYTHING that's
> publicly accessible, whether by anonymous FTP or web?
Ah, but if it hits a site that's set up with a top-level directory
which *does* contain an "index" page but whose server *doesn't*
recognize the index page name, then when you hit the site you
(probably) get one of those server-generated indices. Those things
generally have *everything* in the directory visible (except those
files blocked by the server configuration, usually stuff like emacs
temp files), and so there you go...
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