There are many ways to defeat java-script protected web
sites. Some are very simplistic, such as hitting ctl-alt-del
when the password box is displayed, to simply turning off
java capability, which will dump you into the default page.
You can try manually searching for other directories, by
typing the directory name into the url address box of your
browser,ie: you want access to www.target.com . Try typing
www.target.com/images .(almost every web site has an images
directory) This will put you into the images directory,
and give you a text list of all the images located there.
Often, the title 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 good
chance then, that there is a 'games' directory on the site,
so you would then type in www.target.com/games, and if it is
a valid directory, you again get a text listing of all the
files available there.For a more automated approach, use a
program like WEB SNAKE from anawave, or Web Wacker. These
programs will create a mirror image of an entire web site,
showing all directories,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 opening "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 entire server. Set Web Snake to NOT
download anything over about 20K. (not many HTML pages are
bigger than this) This speeds things up some, and keeps you
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, and all of its sub-directories listed.
Let's say we find /target/games/zip/zipindex.html . This would be the
index page that would be displayed had you gone through the
password procedure, and allowed it to redirect you here.
By simply typing in the url www.target.com/games/zip/zipindex.html
you will be on the index page and ready to follow the links
for downloading.
