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Hi all,

Real quick question here. I'm a rookie to site security as well as site optimization. I want to prevent people from peeping at the directories of my site - for example, www.mysite.com/images will show them a list of all the files in my images directory.

What I did was make a simple index.html file and stuck it in that directory. All it does is redirect the user back to the main index page. Code looks like this:

<META HTTP-EQUIV='refresh' CONTENT='0;URL=www.mysite.com'>

Is this standard practice, or is there a better way to do this? And do the search engines frown upon such redirects? I've used my robots.txt file to keep them out of the /images/ directory anyway, but I figured I'd ask.

Thanks!
Jan 25 '08 #1
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mrhoo
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There are no standards, but the client meta-refresh is a poor choice.
Many sites put an index page in every directory, but the page generally has a site map or other content.
Jan 26 '08 #2

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