[TriLUG] Website Directory Listing via HTTP?

[Shane O'Donnell]

One would suppose that if wget/curl were able to walk directories
recursively on a web server, downloading as they go, the information
I'm looking (listing of filenames in directory, hierarchical format)
for is merely a subset of that, no?

So perhaps the web servers I'm working with allow this remote
directory listing capability.  And if that's the case, I'm just
looking for a quick/dirty utility to exploit it.

Shane O.

On 8/25/05, Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformanceinc.com> wrote:
> Shane O'Donnell wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out a way to use wget/curl to grab a simple
> > listing of files without grabbing the files.  Think of it as a remote
> > "ls" via HTTP.
> 
> I think this is only possible if the server is configured to allow
> directory listings.  Most are not.  And for many of those that are, they
> would return the default page for the directory (index.html, etc) if
> it exists.
> 
> If you don't have control of the server in question, you may not have
> any choices beyond FTP/SSH.
> 
> C
> 
> 
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