Josip Rodin said: > (On related note, I need to check out that WebDAV module for Apache, > apparently it provides machine-parseable directory indices via HTTP.)
It does, and it's great, but it'll only help you for mirror sites that are running apache+mod_dav (or some other DAV-capable web server) AND have DAV switched on for the Debian mirror part of the website. Or I have I completely misunderstood what you're wanting to do? The output of directories in HTML format by Apache and various other web servers isn't that difficult to parse. Certainly not when you already know what you're looking for (which you do). And if you just want to test for the existence of a certain file, it's even easier to look at it directly ... $ nc -v ftp.au.debian.org 80 www.planetmirror.com [203.16.234.20] 80 (?) open HEAD http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-cd/3.0_r0/i386/binary-i386-1.iso HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 01:25:02 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 mod_layout/3.2 Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:31:18 GMT ETag: "19970b-28718000-3d3c0926" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 678526976 Content-Type: application/octet-stream X-Cache: MISS from proxy.rts.com.au X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from proxy.rts.com.au:3128 Proxy-Connection: close Yep, there's a file there, last modified July 22 '02, and it's 647M. Sounds about right. =) The problem here of course is that (as has already been pointed out) there is no standard directory structure for the Debian CD mirrors. The one on ftp.au.debian.org is pretty good though IMO. Hopefully the debian-cd people can sort that out sometime. Andrew. -- Andrew Shugg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.neep.com.au/ "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."