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IIS_Exploitation --[On the first day, God created directory traversal] Relative paths are the developers friend. They allow an entire website to  be moved to another directory without the need for changing all the links  in the html. For example, lets say we have a webpage called 'pictures.html'  in the htdocs dir:   Absolute path:  /home/webpages/htdocs/pictures.html   Absolute path:  /home/webpages/images/pic1.gif In the html you can refer to the 'pic1.gif' via an absolute path shown  above or use a relative path:   Relative path: ../images/pic1.gif The relative path tells the server that it has to go to the parent  directory (dot dot) -->  from /home/webpages/htdocs to /home/webpages. Then  the server goes into the images dir and looks for the gif file to display. Anyone who has used the 'cd' command in DOS and *nix should be familiar  with the operation. So what's t...