A web server is a thing people use to make files publicly accessible False. There are lots of things on webservers that aren't public. Try to access: https:/

A web server is a thing people use to make files publicly accessible False. There are lots of things on webservers that aren't public. Try to access: https://github.com/harryh/my-private-repo https://github.com/harryh/my-private-repo You can't, because github hasn't made a mistake and accidentally made all private repos public. If github screwed up one day and all private repos were temporarily made public it would be illegal for you to run a script that tried to scrape them all down to your personal hard drive.