Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
This sounds familiar to me. I wonder if the server is switching on netlingo's http headers. I remmber somebody having this trouble with amazon.com. At 3:09 AM +0200 8/22/02, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: Yes, for some reason I have trouble getting it to work too - now! I must open the filemaker port in the firewall to be able to backtrace my code. Can't do it from here or at this time (03.10 am). -A. At 1:13 AM +0200 8/22/02, you wrote: But getnettext returns an empty string, rather than the server's CREATED html for the file listings. It's no big deal, but odd. Yes it's odd. It's not helping you, but it works for me with a Mac server. Did you try using getNetText(ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folder) instead of http? It has been working better for me. -A. data point: http: ftp: both fail for me too URL = htp://kettles.best.vwh.net/demos/ -Buzz -- Cole [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
At 12:57 PM -0400 8/21/02, you wrote: I realize that the server permissions must be set as such, rather than a 404... but if I do a request on a folder/index.html that doesn't exist, will I get a list of the folders, ie a browser? not that I know of - getNetText returns a file. if it's not there, you get I think each browser does something special to get back a fabricated html page hth -Buzz Is there any other way of getting remote files in a browser, ie getNthfilename(http)? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
On 8/21/02 3:10 PM, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] decreed thusly: I think each browser does something special to get back a fabricated html page hth Found a way to get the convoluted html using the old xtranet (Terry had a browser example from gmatter as well). But I think I'll just use my directFTP after all. I would've expected the index.html text that the browser puts out when requesting a directories contents that are allowed to be seen. you know, like a browser does. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
Grimmwerks, That's easy, but you need to configure the www server like this: If no index.html exists in a folder, then show directory contents instead. This is just one check box on a Mac server, I don't know about windows. Once you've done that you can just do a getNetText(www.something.com/folder) to get a html page with the file listing embedded. Then you just need to strip away the graphics, html code etc I've noticed some shakiness when doing this tho... A lot of times it only works the 2nd time i issue the getNetText(). Don't have a clue to why. So I switched over to using the Shockwave Multiuser Server instead, which is a tad more capable. If you want to do it using SMUS, have a look at the server side scripting command called getAt() which is not what you'd expect it to be. -A. I realize that the server permissions must be set as such, rather than a 404... but if I do a request on a folder/index.html that doesn't exist, will I get a list of the folders, ie a browser? Is there any other way of getting remote files in a browser, ie getNthfilename(http)? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
I think each browser does something special to get back a fabricated html page hth Found a way to get the convoluted html using the old xtranet (Terry had a browser example from gmatter as well). But I think I'll just use my directFTP after all. I would've expected the index.html text that the browser puts out when requesting a directories contents that are allowed to be seen. you know, like a browser does. I'm not quite sure I understand. It's not the browser that produces the html, it's the www server. You can design the page template to be output yourself, if you like, as long as you have access to the server. -A. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
On 8/21/02 3:30 PM, Andreas Gaunitz P11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] decreed thusly: That's easy, but you need to configure the www server like this: If no index.html exists in a folder, then show directory contents instead. This is just one check box on a Mac server, I don't know about windows. Actually the server IS setup like that, but the nettextresult still shows a blank. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
On 8/21/02 3:34 PM, Andreas Gaunitz P11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] decreed thusly: I'm not quite sure I understand. It's not the browser that produces the html, it's the www server. You can design the page template to be output yourself, if you like, as long as you have access to the server. -A. No, I understand -- ie the server being configured to show a dir's listings if there's no index.html page present. The server is configured as such. But getnettext returns an empty string, rather than the server's CREATED html for the file listings. It's no big deal, but odd. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
I've noticed some shakiness when doing this tho... A lot of times it only
works the 2nd time i issue the getNetText(). Don't have a clue to why.
So I switched over to using the Shockwave Multiuser Server instead, which
is a tad more capable. If you want to do it using SMUS, have a look at the
server side scripting command called getAt() which is not what you'd
expect it to be.
In case your web server happens to support php something like this will
give you the dir listing of any directory you drop it in:
?php
// showdir.php returns a simple directory listing of
// the current directory on a web server
$filepath=$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];
$dirpath=substr($filepath,0,strrpos ($filepath, /));
$nl = br\n;
foreach( getArray_readdir($dirpath) as $value) {
echo $value.$nl;
};
function getArray_readdir ( $path ) {
$hdl = opendir( $path );
$dirlist = array();
while ($res = readdir( $hdl )) {
$dirlist[$i] = $res;
$i++;
}
closedir($hdl);
return $dirlist;
}
?
best regards
Daniel Plaenitz
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Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
But getnettext returns an empty string, rather than the server's CREATED html for the file listings. It's no big deal, but odd. Yes it's odd. It's not helping you, but it works for me with a Mac server. Did you try using getNetText(ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folder) instead of http? It has been working better for me. -A. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
At 1:13 AM +0200 8/22/02, you wrote: But getnettext returns an empty string, rather than the server's CREATED html for the file listings. It's no big deal, but odd. Yes it's odd. It's not helping you, but it works for me with a Mac server. Did you try using getNetText(ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folder) instead of http? It has been working better for me. -A. data point: http: ftp: both fail for me too URL = htp://kettles.best.vwh.net/demos/ -Buzz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getting list of files in remote folder...
Yes, for some reason I have trouble getting it to work too - now! I must open the filemaker port in the firewall to be able to backtrace my code. Can't do it from here or at this time (03.10 am). -A. At 1:13 AM +0200 8/22/02, you wrote: But getnettext returns an empty string, rather than the server's CREATED html for the file listings. It's no big deal, but odd. Yes it's odd. It's not helping you, but it works for me with a Mac server. Did you try using getNetText(ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folder) instead of http? It has been working better for me. -A. data point: http: ftp: both fail for me too URL = htp://kettles.best.vwh.net/demos/ -Buzz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
