On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 12:59:42PM -0800, Jay D. Dyson wrote:
> 
>       Which begs the question: why would /admin or /password be linked
> from any publicly accessible page??  If they're not linked, they won't be
> spidered.  Furthermore, any such page should have IP address restrictions
> in place as well as the login/pass challenge.
> 
You would be amazed what gets spidered.  I've seen test web servers where
the entire server wasn't linked from anywhere, yet ended up on google.  Be
especially wary of web stats software that creates links to the pages it
is reporting on, while at the same time reporting referrers...

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