On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:18:52AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 04:53:52PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > > This raises a question for which I don't know the answer: > > > How does one list an http directory that does allow it? > > > > Basically, you shouldn't. If the web site administrator has set up > > index.html files or otherwise prevented you from generating a > > directory listing, it generally means that there's stuff in that > > directory which you aren't meant to access. It's impolite (at best) > > to try and get round that, although the wise admin will take stronger > > meansures to ensure that even if you can guess filenames, you still > > can't download anything you shouldn't. > > > > Please reread my query -- I'm asking how to read the directory > when the administrator does allow it.
Oops. Sorry about that. Note to self: read what is written, not
anything else.
Just do a HTTP GET on the directory name. eg.
% GET http://localhost/~matthew/
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Index of /~matthew</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Index of /~matthew</h1>
<pre><img src="/icons/blank.gif" alt="Icon " /> <a href="?C=N;O=D">Name</a>
<a href="?C=M;O=A">Last modified</a> <a href="?C=S;O=A">Size</a> <a
href="?C=D;O=A">Description</a><hr /><img src="/icons/back.gif" alt="[DIR]" /> <a
href="/">Parent Directory</a> -
<img src="/icons/folder.gif" alt="[DIR]" /> <a href="books/">books/</a>
07-Aug-2003 20:12 -
<img src="/icons/folder.gif" alt="[DIR]" /> <a
href="cryptosphere/">cryptosphere/</a> 02-Jun-2003 16:34 -
<img src="/icons/unknown.gif" alt="[ ]" /> <a href="foo.php">foo.php</a>
08-Oct-2003 12:24 1.1K
<img src="/icons/text.gif" alt="[TXT]" /> <a href="mrtg-rrd.cgi">mrtg-rrd.cgi</a>
23-Jan-2003 13:30 24K
<img src="/icons/text.gif" alt="[TXT]" /> <a
href="mrtg-rrd.cgi-1.20">mrtg-rrd.cgi-1.20</a> 31-Jan-2003 16:25 24K
<img src="/icons/text.gif" alt="[TXT]" /> <a
href="mrtg-rrd.cgi.000">mrtg-rrd.cgi.000</a> 14-Jan-2003 12:55 24K
<img src="/icons/folder.gif" alt="[DIR]" /> <a href="mrtg/">mrtg/</a>
18-Apr-2003 15:36 -
<img src="/icons/text.gif" alt="[TXT]" /> <a href="nwc.cgi">nwc.cgi</a>
17-Nov-2002 08:04 12K
<img src="/icons/text.gif" alt="[TXT]" /> <a href="nwc.css">nwc.css</a>
17-Nov-2002 08:04 2.0K
<img src="/icons/unknown.gif" alt="[ ]" /> <a href="nwc.php">nwc.php</a>
17-Nov-2002 08:04 12K
<hr /></pre>
<address>Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 Server at localhost Port 80</address>
</body></html>
If you want that without all of the HTML fluff:
% lynx -dump -nolist http://localhost/~matthew/
Index of /~matthew
Icon Name Last modified Size Description
__________________________________________________________________________
[DIR] Parent Directory -
[DIR] books/ 07-Aug-2003 20:12 -
[DIR] cryptosphere/ 02-Jun-2003 16:34 -
[ ] foo.php 08-Oct-2003 12:24 1.1K
[TXT] mrtg-rrd.cgi 23-Jan-2003 13:30 24K
[TXT] mrtg-rrd.cgi-1.20 31-Jan-2003 16:25 24K
[TXT] mrtg-rrd.cgi.000 14-Jan-2003 12:55 24K
[DIR] mrtg/ 18-Apr-2003 15:36 -
[TXT] nwc.cgi 17-Nov-2002 08:04 12K
[TXT] nwc.css 17-Nov-2002 08:04 2.0K
[ ] nwc.php 17-Nov-2002 08:04 12K
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Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 Server at localhost Port 80
Cheers,
Matthew
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