Poor man’s document sharing with private links, sort of like what you get with Google Docs. The solution is very simple and I stumbled upon it when I was trying to device a solution for publishing my non-scientific work. The following snippet, when put in the html source, prevents web crawlers from indexing the page. Thus, the page can be hosted on a web server (I use Github Pages) but won’t show up on a web search engine (such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.).
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<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />The page is thus only accessible to those who possess the page url. There are several strategies to generate unique urls. I tend to prepend a timestamp to all my file names. You could also generate a uuid for your file names using the uuidgen command on *nix like operating systems.