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lucy24 - 7:23 pm on Sep 27, 2012 (gmt 0)


Just to get the obvious out of the way: If you're on Apache, you haven't overridden the directory-slash redirect in combination with enabling auto-indexing have you?

Can we safely assume that nothing on the site or anywhere else uses any resources in your /fzzbwt/ directory? So its name does not occur within any document of any kind whatsoever, including server headers? Not only as <a or <link but anything of any kind?

If you're screaming Yes, you idiot, I checked all that already:

Good. This is the point where some people come slinking back "Oh, ###, it never entered my mind that bing could read {suchandsuch}." Or "I swear I checked for matching parentheses 87 times already" or equivalent.

Gotta check and double-check.


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