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You can try manually searching for other directories, by typing the directory name into the url address box of your browser, ie: you w ant access to www.target.com . Try typing www.target.com/images .(almost ever y web site has an images directory) This will put you into the images directo ry, and give you a text list of all the images located there.
Often, the t itle of an image will give you a clue to the name of another directory. ie: in www.target.com/images, there is a .gif named gamestitle.gif . There is a g ood chance then, that there is a 'games' directory on the site, so you wou ld then type in www.target.com/games, and if it is a valid directory, you aga in get a text listing of all thefiles available there.
For a more automated a pproach, use a program like WEB SNAKE from anawave, or Web Wacker. These pro grams will create a mirror image of an entire web site, showing all director ies, or even mirror a complete server. They are indispensable for locating hidden files and directories.
What do you do if you can't get past an openin g "Password
Required" box? First do an WHOIS Lookup for the site. In our example, www.target.com . We find it's hosted by www.host.com at 100.100.100. 1. We then go to 100.100.100.1, and then launch \
Web Snake, and mirror the e ntire server. Set Web Snake to NOT download anything over about 20K. (not ma ny HTML pages are bigger than this) This speeds things up some, and keeps yo u from getting a lot of files and images you don't care about.
This can take a long time, so consider running it right before bed time.
Once you have an image of the entire server, you look through the directories listed, and find /target. When we open that directory, we find its contents,