lucy24 - 11:41 am on Sep 28, 2012 (gmt 0)

They got 404 in fact, according to the server logs.

? ? ? I thought the point was that they are finding pages that actually do exist. Or did you mean that your config file is nipping in with a quick 404 if the wrong person tries to get at Bluebeard's directory?

What is the directory really used for? Just random storage? Or does anything in there perform any function?

Speaking of logs, has anyone been snuffling around them? The log files themselves, that is. Feed the right search strings into g### and you'll find jaw-dropping numbers of raw logs out there on the web for anyone and everyone to paw through. And they're not all demos for "How to understand your logs" tutorials. I really don't want to think about how they all got out there.