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I had a thread a while ago about web server directories and want to know if anyone has come across any software that can query a web server and return a directory listings of present files. I.E. in DOS, you type dir <path> and it returns a listing. Is there a piece of software that does the same via the net? I had a few "net walking" programs that downloaded whatever it found under a certain file mask or otherwise...but any that just return a file list?
Nope.
Are you sure? Why then can I search and D/L a server for a certain file mask? Couldn't it be possible just to see what files were being *about to be downloaded but instead just return a list with paths, etc.?
No, this is not possible because of the nature of HTTP. THe only time you are able to get a directory index from a web server is when there is no index file in that directory and the web server is set up in such a way as to allow directory index listing. Even then you will only get an HTML formatted "Index of" page, which you would have to parse.
This is intentional, as allowing the file structure of a web server to be viewed freely is a security risk.
I used to use a program like this... it wouldn't give me a listing in the browser, but if you plopped a url into the program, it showed you every file that was in that directory... that was a few years ago however and security might be tighter now.
ahh... found it: http://gozilla.com/index.htm
Gozilla!
hmm... except it was free when I used it.