picoCTF: where are the robots

Challenge

Name: where are the robots

Points: 100

Description:

Can you find the robots?

Link: https://jupiter.challenges.picoctf.org/problem/56830/

Hints

1. What part of the website could tell you where the creator doesn't want you to look?

Solution

Go to /robots.txt

Look for the Disallow: /1bb4c.html

Go to that page

And done

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Comments

[amrithanaidu]

When you get to the page and see the Disallow: /1bb4c.html, how do you get to that page?

[Huxley]

/1bb4c.html is the url path

[amrithanaidu]

So would I add that on to the end of the url of the last website I got to?

[Huxley]

Replace the /robots.txt with it

[Jkr Jkr]

Hello, how did you find out about the /robots.txt link ?
Thanks!

[amrithanaidu]

You add it onto the end of the link of the website provided.