RE: Question about wildcarding when getting files with LWP

2003-08-21 Thread John J Lee
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Patrick Collins wrote: [...] > If you control the webserver you could try upgrading to Apache2 and > using mod_dav. The Webdav protocol allows you to get parsable directory > listings from which you can then download whatever files you choose. [...] And no doubt there's a modu

RE: Question about wildcarding when getting files with LWP

2003-08-21 Thread Patrick Collins
Anthony, As far as I'm aware, HTTP servers do not by default allow wildcarding. I've never seen such a feature, but I'm sure somebody has written an Apache module somewhere which allows this feature on the server side. If you control the webserver you could try upgrading to Apache2 and using mo