<OT> webpage index

[Tony Alfrey]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Thanks in advance for help with this.
>>
>> Consider a URL with a directory like this:
>>
>> http://www.a_website.com/a_directory
>>
>> Without knowing that a directory exists with the name a_directory, or 
>> the names of files, html pages, whatever within a_directory, is it 
>> possible for anyone to actually see these files, html pages, whatever 
>> or to know that they exist?
>>
>> I suppose that this is the same as asking "how does Google know that a 
>> page exists (especially without any "keywords" in the page)?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
> caveat: no expert.
> 
> but I believe as long as you have an index.html in the www.a_website.com
> root directory the directory index will not be shown, so the directories
> will not be shown. I think google goes to the website address, and sees
> the index.html contents, then just follows links from there.
> 
> If your web server is set up for php, this also applies to index.php, I
> think.
> 
> Ken

Good.  So in other words, if I want to use a_directory as a place to put 
a file that I would like to transfer to someone who knows its existence 
and path to it, and said file is no earth-shaking security issue, and 
there are no links to the file within the pages on the parent directory, 
then it's a relatively "secure" way to send the file?



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