Challenge Description
Description
Someone once told me “Why settle for boring old robots.txt when you can have clankers.txt guarding your website?”
- Author: Jun Wei
- Category: web
- Difficulty: beginner
Disallow Robots - Solution
- Connect to the VPN and visit the website.
Ctrl + Uto view source code, which will direct you to check outrobots.txt.
Here are the contents of robots.txt:
User-agent: *
# Congratulations, you found the first clue! The path you're not supposed to visit is the one you must visit.
Disallow: /f1ag_h3r3_n0w_th3_r0b0ts_path- Visit that path and the flag will be shown in plaintext.
Flag: HNF25{s0uRc3_c0d3_anD_r0b0ts_m4tt3r_s0m3t1m3s!}