[3533] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Alta Vista may or may not harvest unadvertised documents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David M. Chess)
Wed Nov 13 18:07:26 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 96 13:59:39 EST
From: "David M. Chess" <CHESS@watson.ibm.com>
To: smb@research.att.com
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> But the bottom line is that files should be
> retrievable if and only if someone has taken positive action to make them
> so.
I've always thought that, too, and the first toy http server
that I wrote worked that way. But (from the mere server-user's
point of view) it's so dashed *inconvenient*! Compared to just
slapping the files out there and having the server eager to
disburse them to the world with no further action on your
part.
DC
