Don't Want Everybody to See Files

S

Sebastian

If I have a web published on the internet that has a
subweb with files I don't want the general public to see,
and there are no links from the www files to the subweb,
is it possible for somebody to view these without knowing
the names of the files?
 
K

Kevin Spencer

Yes.

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T

Tom Pepper Willett

Unless, of course, the search engines pick them up ;-)
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| Yes.
|
| --
| HTH,
| Kevin Spencer
| .Net Developer
| Microsoft MVP
| Big things are made up
| of lots of little things.
|
| | > If I have a web published on the internet that has a
| > subweb with files I don't want the general public to see,
| > and there are no links from the www files to the subweb,
| > is it possible for somebody to view these without knowing
| > the names of the files?
|
|
 
S

Steve Easton

The private folder is not accessible using a browser.


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T

Thomas A. Rowe

No, but what purpose does it serve to have the files on the web if you don't want any to see them?
Is this a private area for access by specific people?

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S

Sebastian

Yes, for specific people. Am I safe in doing it that way?

-----Original Message-----
No, but what purpose does it serve to have the files on
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K

Kevin Spencer

The private folder is not browsable - at all. If you want to make certain
documents available to only authorized people, the best way would be to
create a subweb with unique permissions, that requires a login to access.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
S

Sebastian

How would I do that?
-----Original Message-----
The private folder is not browsable - at all. If you want to make certain
documents available to only authorized people, the best way would be to
create a subweb with unique permissions, that requires a login to access.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.




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J

Jeremy

You could put a password on the subweb, which would control who could see
its contents. (One of the hosting companies I use makes me have the same
security for my web and subwebs; the other company I use allows me to set
security for each subweb, which is the way they should all do it!)

Good luck!
 
S

Sebastian

I thought search engines found files by looking at the
meta tags. If there are no meta tags, how would the
search engine find it? Thanks
 
T

Tom Pepper Willett

That is not necessarily the case.

Some search engines automatically seek out sites and index them.

That can be controlled with a robots.text file in the root web.:

http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm
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| I thought search engines found files by looking at the
| meta tags. If there are no meta tags, how would the
| search engine find it? Thanks
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Unless, of course, the search engines pick them up ;-)
| >--
| >===
| >Tom "Pepper" Willett
| >Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| >---
| >About FrontPage 2003:
| > http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?
| assetid=FX01085802
| >FrontPage 2003 Product Information:
| >
| http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default
| .mspx
| >Understanding FrontPage:
| >
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
| >FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Support Center:
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-
| us;fp10se
| >===
| >| >| Yes.
| >|
| >| --
| >| HTH,
| >| Kevin Spencer
| >| .Net Developer
| >| Microsoft MVP
| >| Big things are made up
| >| of lots of little things.
| >|
| >| "Sebastian" <[email protected]>
| wrote in message
| >| | >| > If I have a web published on the internet that has a
| >| > subweb with files I don't want the general public to
| see,
| >| > and there are no links from the www files to the
| subweb,
| >| > is it possible for somebody to view these without
| knowing
| >| > the names of the files?
| >|
| >|
| >
| >
| >.
| >
 
R

Ronx

Search Engines find files by following links. Meta tags merely assist the
spider in indexing that file.

Ron
 
M

Murray

As far as I have been able to tell, only Inktomi uses meta tags as a
principal indexing method (this is very tough to determine, by the way -
it's shrouded in secrecy!). All the rest use page content as the primary
ranking focus. So - the bottom line is this:

On a page with no content, or with poorly optimized content, meta tags will
have no detectable impact. On a page with content (<title>, <h1>, <h2>,
links, comments, image alt and title attributes, etc.) that contains many
keywords, and is organized so that important keyword content occurs high on
the page, the ranking will be high whether you use meta tags or not. In
this case, carefully planned meta tags may affect the ranking by a few
percent, but no more, probably.

It's always nice to provide page specific meta descriptions, however, since
those will be shown when the pages are found in a search.
 
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