Recon 00
Bookmarked!This exercise covers the robots.txt file
Objective
For this challenge, your goal is to retrieve the robots.txt
from the main website for hackycorp.com
.
The
robots.txt
fileThe robots.txt
file is used to tell web spiders how to crawl a website. To avoid having confidential information indexed and searchable, webmasters often use this file to tell spiders to avoid specific pages. This is done using the keyword Disallow
. You can find more about the robots.txt
file by reading Robots exclusion standard