RE: Apache HTTPD's magical behavior

["Golden_Eternity" <bhodi_jabir () yahoo com>]

> Today I was browsing the Internet when I came across a server that would
> not let me view the contents of the root dir.
>
> However, it did let me view the contents of a dir within it's
> root dir. So
> I tried the following:
>
> http://<server>/<dir i can browse>../
>
> And for some reason it allowed me to view the root dir and all of
> its contents.

Do we know if this works if Indexes is turned off? Or does this just bypass
the DirectoryIndex tag?

BTW, I have tested this on 1.3.17 and it doesn't seem to be affected.