Re: Directory Scanner

Taras <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
IMHO, the topic starter need to answer on the one question: what risk do 
I want to reduce? Risk of unathorized access to these *private* PDF 
documents? Ok, you need to implement authorization to access these pages.


09.02.2012 16:36, Vedantam Sekhar пишет:
> Hi,
>
> Probably you can implement authentication to these pages, if you want
> specific users can access these pages.
> or probably, you can block the IP for specific time period after un
> successfull requests to non-eisting files.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sekhar
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Thugzclub Thugzclub
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> A question:
>>
>> Given a website URL like the below :
>>
>> http://www.companywebsite.com/resources/resources/whitepapers/document_1_wp.pdf
>> http://www.companywebsite.com/resources/resources/whitepapers/document_arbinatryname__wp.pdf
>>
>> How can I protect somebody from enumerating the list of file on this
>> "whitepapers" directory ?  What tool can I use to make sure that I am
>> adequately protected against this ?
>> Cheers
>>
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