[3520] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Alta Vista may or may not harvest unadvertised documents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Robert LoVerso)
Tue Nov 12 22:02:09 1996
To: Prentiss Riddle <riddle@is.rice.edu>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Message from Prentiss Riddle <riddle@is.rice.edu>
<199611111632.KAA18657@is.rice.edu> .
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:22:55 -0500
From: John Robert LoVerso <john@loverso.southborough.ma.us>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Actually, that is a follow up to my RISKS article in 18.57
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/18.57.html#subj14). The original subject
was those sites that are poorly layed out, where stripping off filenames
does accidentally give fancy indices where none was intended.
David Skillicorn claims information is second hand; it would work best with
an actual example.
Someone sent me mail claiming that HotBot catalogued his ftp server
after walking over a URL with an ftp scheme. I tried to look up his
pages (as he suggested) but I couldn't find them there.
John
