Is it possible to get a list of files under a directory of a website? How?

If you have directory listing disabled in your webserver, then the only way somebody will find it is by guessing or by finding a link to it.

That said, I’ve seen hacking scripts attempt to “guess” a whole bunch of these common names. secret.html would probably be in such a guess list.

The more reasonable solution is to restrict access using a username/password via a htaccess file (for apache) or the equivalent setting for whatever webserver you’re using.

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