HTML Comment Tags
HTML comment tags are an often-overlooked programming mistake that can reveal sensitive information about your site. Several press organizations have warned that search engines like Google and AltaVista are providing hackers with userids, passwords, credit cards numbers, classified documents, and other sensitive internal information due to comments in html code.
The reason, a Webmaster mistakenly left comment tags that made this information available to the public and search engines. For example, do your HTML comment tags contain userids, passwords, database connection string, etc? The tool below can be used to display the comment declarations of a web page.
Syntax Examples:
http://www.mysite.com/mypage.htm
http://www.mysite.com/mypage.asp
http://1.1.1.1/mypage.htm
http://1.1.1.1/mypage.html
Note:
* SiteRecon does not retain results.
* Process normally takes 5 to 10 seconds to complete.
* Process uses <!-- comments --> syntax to identify comment areas.
* URL must be prefixed with http:// or https://
* The following characters will be stripped from the URL entered: \ % ' ; [ ] ( ) # $ ^ * + = &
Additional Information on HTML Comment Tags
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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