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Re: How Google indexed a file with no external link
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theo Van Dinter)
Tue Jul 10 12:33:44 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:24:10 -0400
From: Theo Van Dinter <felicity@kluge.net>
To: Kevin <kevin@brasscannon.net>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <20010710122410.C7804@kluge.net>
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In-Reply-To: <20010709214744.A28765@brasscannon.net>; from kevin@brasscannon.net on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:47:44PM -0400
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:47:44PM -0400, Kevin wrote:
> http://handsonhowto.com/?M=A
> http://handsonhowto.com/?S=D
> ...and if you try this yourself in Internet Explorer, you'll find that
> Apache is ignoring my index.html and is giving you a formatted directory
> of the docroot directory as though there were no index page.
This doesn't seem to work on any of the servers I tried (the one above
included). They're all running Apache 1.3.x (where x={2,19,20}).
Did you fix this (or otherwise make related changes) on your box?
> The differences between the ?M and the ?S versions are not blatantly
> obvious, at least not to me.
A quick check on the web Apache docs doesn't show anything, but a quick poke
at the source code (<apache dir>/src/modules/standard/mod_autoindex.c) shows
the following:
#define K_NAME 'N' /* Sort by file name (default) */
#define K_LAST_MOD 'M' /* Last modification date */
#define K_SIZE 'S' /* Size (absolute, not as displayed) */
#define K_DESC 'D' /* Description */
#define D_ASCENDING 'A'
#define D_DESCENDING 'D'
So "?M=A" is "Sort by Last modified date, ascending (earliest first)", and
"?S=D" is "Sort by size, descending (largest first)".
I believe the default is "?N=A", or alphabetically.
