First, I recommend a search on Google for the phrase "security through obscurity", which is exactly the problem you're encountering. A couple of well-written papers, with examples, by security analysts might sway more minds than any program you'll write.

And yes, it's possible -- script kiddies have been doing similar for over a decade and a half, now. All it involves, at its most basic, is "best guesses" at directory names, like "home" and "etc", coupled, perhaps, with a full-blown dict attack.

I don't know of any mainstream utility that would do it, but I cannot imagine it would be hard to build, just tedious to deploy and run. If you're serious about this, I'd suggest looking into "SQL Injection" attacks, which, as I recall, use similar techniques on some levels.

Does that help?

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.

In reply to Re: (OT) Script for getting list of all files/directories on website? by Asim
in thread (OT) Script for getting list of all files/directories on website? by buttroast

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