Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 12/02/06 21:49

Rudi Menter wrote:
> There are programs like Teleport pro that are able to
> access any public file at any public directory on a website.
>
> What method(s) do those programs use in order to retrieve
> the file list of a given directory?

Even though you can have a default file (like index.html), you may also
enable directory browsing.
On the HTTP level (sockets) you can request a directory listing instead
of the default file.

I think you can user Gopher protocol to do that, too.

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