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Re: Alta Vista may or may not harvest unadvertised documents

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Rose)
Wed Nov 13 10:16:19 1996

Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 08:25:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacob Rose <jacob@whiteshell.com>
To: John Cronin <John.Cronin@oit.gatech.edu>
Cc: Prentiss Riddle <riddle@is.rice.edu>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199611121417.JAA21354@oit.gatech.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

> This is the crux of it.  Either that, or be VERY careful about always
> putting in an appropriate index file for each directory AND make sure
> all your permissions are set properly.

Generally, you can turn off automatic indeces, too, requiring that your
default document (be it "index.html" or whatever) be there.

Jacob Rose                      The price and the cost of automobile
jacob@whiteshell.com            travel are two very different values.
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