[OT] Re: [TriLUG] Website Directory Listing via HTTP?

[William Sutton]

Nice Princess Bride ref, Tanner :}

William Sutton

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> On 8/25/05, Shane O'Donnell <shaneodonnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So here's the real use case...
> > 
> > A web server, for which I have ONLY HTTP access, has an MP3
> > repository.  So does my laptop.  I want to be able to pull a complete
> > listing of available MP3s, including directory information (which
> > contains artist, album info) and compare it to the MP3s I have on my
> > laptop so I can determine what I need to push to the web server and
> > what is available that I don't have on my laptop.
> > 
> > So is "a manual rsync via HTTP" a better description?
> 
> Shane,
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears you want to do
> two things.
> 
> 1. Copy any files you don't have from the http server to your laptop
> 2. Copy any files that are only on the laptop to the server.
> 
> With only http access I can't help you with #2. (I mean, if we only 
> had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.)  But, with #1,
> you should be able to do it with wget.  Look up the docs for
> "mirroring" and for restricting what it gets by file extension.
> Then, as long as the directory layouts are the same, have
> it mirror and only get mp3 files.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 
>