Mashy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 4:08 am
Ah hmm. That does sound complicated. Is there another way to do this then?
You could just to the same thing you do for the rattlesnake puzzle. Instead of them putting the answer in the text box, they put it ... and then you show them what you want to show them when they get to the other side.
There are not many dynamics that are not exploitable, but that one seems pretty solid.
Sorry to be a noob but how do I do that? On the wix interface I disabled the pages from showing up on search engines, does that mean google is still crawling them?
There's a
text file here that says what pages can appear on search engines, and which ones not. I think what you've done in wix just means that the pages do not appear in the sitemap (what avolkiteshvara linked to).
You could maybe edit that text file manually, to say something like:
Code: Select all
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /game/*
Which would tell all search engines to ignore anything under
https://www.karililt.com/game/, and then you could move all the pages there (not sure how you would do that with wix directly).
In retrospect, I think it's not super duper important, as the rattlesnake page creates a "gap". Google works by following links and you cannot get beyond that page with links. It's more something to make sure Google doesn't even try to index pages there (e.g., maybe at some stage someone links to a page beyond the rattesnake gap). But to be honest, even if Google is not indexing the pages, it is not difficult to map out all of the links you give on the website. The more general solution is to have plenty of gaps that you can't bridge by clicking a link.
That's a good idea. I'll make harder titles and maybe add in random letters. I googled around and it said wix has DoS protections.
DoS protection is good!
Thinking more about it, I think if I were to try to cheat based on what I've seen, I might try to brute-force finding pages using common words from an English dictionary. So if possible, you might want to try avoid pages that are just called after words, especially common words. Note that the 30007th most frequent word in English is lyricism, and doing one request per second (which would probably be considered okay by the DoS protections), all words that appear more common that "lyricism" to you could be brute forced in around 8 hours (maybe even less, depending on how strict the host is with how many pages can be requested per second, or if someone has control of machines in different locations). So if you have a puzzle you hope lasts longer than that, try to avoid naming the pages beyond it on a single English word.