Yep, the obfuscated URL is basically the password. It's completely private if you never give it out. Otyer services do this. If I recall correctly, Craigslist even let's you edit posts this way.
But would it not be visible to search engine crawler and found that way? Is there something stoping the crawlers, or that's not how they work.
1) Search engine crawlers only follow links, which there are none unless the OP puts them out there,
2) and you could also have server code that is something along the lines of
if (header('User-Agent').indexOf('Bot') > 0) { // respond with blank or 404 }
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Yep, the obfuscated URL is basically the password. It's completely private if you never give it out. Otyer services do this. If I recall correctly, Craigslist even let's you edit posts this way.
But would it not be visible to search engine crawler and found that way? Is there something stoping the crawlers, or that's not how they work.
1) Search engine crawlers only follow links, which there are none unless the OP puts them out there,
2) and you could also have server code that is something along the lines of