August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
10h 22m
English
robots.txt is a file used by web servers to tell search engines about the directories or files that they should index and what they are not allowed to look into. Taking the perspective of an attacker, this tells us whether there is a directory in the server that is accessible but hidden to the public using what is called security through obscurity (that is, assuming that users won't discover the existence of something if they are not told about it).
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