All those open content have been crawled by Google’s spiders and neatly indexed in a file somewhere on their servers. What you might not have been aware is that these public folders are searchable on the web.That’s right.

If you use Google Drive, you must already know this. The idea is to let people share content with others without having to send invitation or requiring them to login to their respective Google accounts. Google Drive too allows creation of public folders. Many webmasters routinely forget to configure their webservers to deny directory access, thereby exposing their content on the internet for anybody to see. You can navigate within the folders, view files or even download them. An unprotected web directory is like a publicly accessible open computer. But if the index file is missing and the webmaster forgot to password protect the folder, the server will return a listing of the files that are within the directory. Generally, when you try to open a web directory in your browser, the browser will either return you an “index” page – an HTML page (or PHP or ASP etc.) that’s in the root of the directory, or if the index file is absent, it will deny access to the directory.

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