On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 03:10:10PM -0500, Jason Mitchell wrote: > Hello, I wanted to let you know that your site has some open directories > that shouldn't be open. > > I accidentally accessed some technical files listed on google. > > The open directory starts on http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RUBYKAT/ > > This is particularly not the type of thing to have out in the open > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RUBYKAT/SQLite-Work-0.16/scripts/
Those files are open source code retrievable by many other approaches, published intentionally, for that purpose. Letting people download them individually over HTTP is a feature! We want these files to be out in the open, providing access to them is what CPAN was built for. -- Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems - Perl consulting with a commit bit and a clue http://shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/ http://twitter.com/shadowcat_mst/ Email me now on mst (at) shadowcat.co.uk and let's chat about how our CPAN commercial support, training and consultancy packages could help your team.
