Suppose there is a web site called foofle.com
It has pages numbered foofle.com/0001, foofle.com/0002
Is there any site that will let you type in “foofle.com/0001” then automatically check the larger numbers to show you the pages?
The two javascript bookmarklets, increment and decrement, on this page will do it manually.
(Save “increment” as a bookmark/favorite. Click the “increment” favorite when your on foofle.com/0002 and foofle.com/0003 will load if it exists. Some sites might jump from 0002 to 0025 with no pages in between and give you page not found errors for foofle.com/0003 through foofle.com/0024.)
CMC fnord!
I do it all the time by just typing in the new number
Like with cartoons, the date is like this http://comics.com/moderately_confused/2009-07-03/ so I will just type in prior dates to surf backward.
The “make numbered list of links” one from that page is also useful. Click it, and you’ll get a new page pop up asking you for a range of numbers for each number in the URL. Fill in the ranges, and it’ll give you links for all of the numbers in those ranges.
Exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks everyone.
Guess who owns the domain foofle.com.
Right first time, it’s Google. Apparently they sit on domains which might be mistakenly put in for Google in order to redirect people. They don’t have them all though.
Here’s a list of some of the more common ones, some owned by Google, some not. (For instance, stay away from gougle and googke, they don’t look nice at all!)
Are you by any chance looking at http://www.homestarrunner.com? Because, while there are hidden pages there, all of them are listed at http://www.hrwiki.org.
(Yeah, I know it’s unlikely, but I figure there’s a nonzero chance.)
With google you can use “site:” as a prefix to a url. Like this:
site:straightdope.com
And it will return many if not all pages with “straightdope.com” in the URL. You might need to click the try again with omitted results link.
If they are numbered sequentially they are not intended to be secret, are they?
If there are no links anywhere even Google will not have them.
I have quite a few pages on my site without links and they have never appeared in Google.
And if you put them in a directory named randomly (Cht69KlfD) the chances of anyone finding them by chance are minimal (unless the server will provide the directory list, obviously).
Secret through obscurity is a bad idea. All it takes is a bruteforce scan systematically increasing urls to find hidden photobucket images, for example. Why they don’t use better security I’ll never know.
Cht69KlfD could prolly be found in 10 minutes with a fast Internet connection, and an automated tool.
Yes, of course, supposing someone had any interest in singling out my site and spying. And if discovered they would just find some boring stuff which is not meant for the public but which I do not mind if it is discovered. Obviously I am not putting confidential stuff there. If I felt the need to put something confidential there it would be encrypted.
Just pointing that out. You seem like the savvy type, but not everyone is, and I didn’t want someone reading this thread and thinking “why bother figuring out how to setup security? I can just give the folder a weird name!”. Then getting their private nudes posted on 4chan, or something…