Security concern

Can't replicate it but once is enough

[anallawalla]

I added the AdSense code on a new page and it worked fine. I wanted to see what ads showed in another country and used a proxy server.

Instead of the ads, I saw the contents of my cgi-bin directory in a little rectangle where the skyscraper ad would have showed (not the whole cell of the table, which is larger). I refreshed the page and the ads displayed correctly. I tried changing the proxy back and forth but I can't replicate it.

The problem is partly with my web host, who allows the content of directories to be seen - so I have kludged that loophole with an empty index.html.

Anyone else seen this AdSense aberration?

[Jenstar]

Could it have been a problem with the alternate ad, and what you were seeing could have been a PSA that was replaced with a miscoded alt ad?

[GrantNZ]

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The problem is partly with my web host, who allows the content of directories to be seen - so I have kludged that loophole with an empty index.html.
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If you are using an apache server, does your host allow htaccess to turn off showing an index?

[anallawalla]

Jenstar, I use agar but what I saw were my own cgi files. It is what I'd expect to see if I were using frames, but I'm not. Wish I had taken a screen dump instead of refreshing.

GrantNZ - good suggestion about using .htaccess.