posting a file on your website

[Boris]

so let's say you have a huge Powerpoint file and it's a pain in the ass, or even impossible, to email to a group of people.

The option I always use is send the file to a zip folder, upload it to my website, and then send everyone a link (something like www.boris_is_da_king.com/hugefile.zip). Then the recipients can download the file directly. My question is, if you just went to my website, you would never know that I had the hugefile.zip folder on there. It's only if I send you link would you know. Is there anyway someone can go to my sight and kind snoop around in the directory and see everything that is up there?

[illunious]

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Is there anyway someone can go to my sight and kind snoop around in the directory and see everything that is up there?

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Normally, you would need to specifically enable directory browsing (it's always been disabled by default with web servers I've used). If you don't see anything by changing the URL from ..com/image/x.jpg to ..com/image/ and your FTP server is well administrated (assuming your on a shared server), it's unlikely someone can snoop around. Also, a public weblog might give someone locations of files you would want to be hidden.