Description

There is some interesting information hidden around this site. Can you find it?

Process / Notes

Open site
Two tabs - how and what
How = liking the website; what = html, css, JS were used to make the site
Examine the source code
First part of the flag in some <!-> text toward the bottom
Remembering to check the embedded css and JS, will check those at the top
Another part of the flag in the css
Seemingly nothing of note in the JS
Inspector to see about running the JS
No wait, the clue is “how can I keep google from indexing my website?” - the robots.txt!
Adding ‘/robots.txt’ to the url got me the third part of the flag
Next hint is that it’s an apache server
Reading how to interact with an apache server and nothing’s coming of it
At 18:40 looking up what to do next in the challenge
add ‘/.htaccess’ to the url! Definitely wouldn’t have figured that out by chance
Next clue is about making websites on their mac because they can store a lot of information
Checking the storage in the inspector
Nothing there
From the walk-through, it’s actually under another url change to ‘/.DS_Store’
That contained the last part of the flag

22 minutes 23 seconds to complete

Understand how to access the page source and the embedded css and JS
Understand various endings to urls including /robots.txt, /.htaccess, and /.DS_Store