RE: [cobalt-users] Stop directory browsing

["Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I recently noticed that one of my hosted sites had been
> > registered with
> > lycos. The problem is that lycos searched out all the links
> > to the image direcotries etc.
> > When you follow the link you can merily browse the
> > directory they're held in. Is there any way to prevent
> > this? Thought of
> > making sure there is a index.html file in every directory but am
> > not sure if that will be sufficient
>
>
> Should be good enough.
>
Add to the above another workaround you may care to consider. Stick a
redirect script in those index pages and point back to the home (or
whatever) page with a *really* short time interval. It's a gross and
disgusting way of handling the situation, but for sure it'll work.
Groetjes,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven