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Basic Web Hacking 15 :: My robot

by Arxleol on Monday 11.01.2010, under hellboundhackers.org, tutorial

In the introduction of the mission we find out that we have to think in direction of hidden directories.

Basic Challenge 15

For this mission you will need to find a secret file using a common technique to find hidden directories.

Password:

Now if you check source code you will find following hint in there:

<!– Try googling for a file that is used to block the googlebot –>

So, now that you figured out that classical document for blocking bots on the web sites is robots.txt let’s try to open it up at:

http://www.hellboundhackers.org/challenges/basic15/robots.txt

You will see file with the following content:

User-agent: *
Disallow: abc/hidden.txt

This means that any agent shouldn’t proceed to abd/hidden.txt

http://www.hellboundhackers.org/challenges/basic15/abc/hidden.txt

The following are contents of the file:

welldone, you have found the hidden file. 

robots.txt is a very common method for webmasters to stop search engines from searching certain folders.

To find out more about robots.txt do a quick google search.

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THE PASSWORD FOR THE CHALLENGE IS: heavenbound
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Let’s try out password:

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