Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:36:29 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Download contents of http directory? Message-ID: <20040111163629.GA12774@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200401120018.52511.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <20040110224342.23710.qmail@web13910.mail.yahoo.com> <200401111653.52614.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <20040111120559.GB10388@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200401120018.52511.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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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.
> >
>=20
> Please reread my query -- I'm asking how to read the directory=20
> 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=3D"/icons/blank.gif" alt=3D"Icon " /> <a href=3D"?C=3DN;O=
=3DD">Name</a> <a href=3D"?C=3DM;O=3DA">Last modified</a=
> <a href=3D"?C=3DS;O=3DA">Size</a> <a href=3D"?C=3DD;O=3DA">Descript=
ion</a><hr /><img src=3D"/icons/back.gif" alt=3D"[DIR]" /> <a href=3D"/">Pa=
rent Directory</a> - =20
<img src=3D"/icons/folder.gif" alt=3D"[DIR]" /> <a href=3D"books/">book=
s/</a> 07-Aug-2003 20:12 - =20
<img src=3D"/icons/folder.gif" alt=3D"[DIR]" /> <a href=3D"cryptosphere=
/">cryptosphere/</a> 02-Jun-2003 16:34 - =20
<img src=3D"/icons/unknown.gif" alt=3D"[ ]" /> <a href=3D"foo.php">fo=
o.php</a> 08-Oct-2003 12:24 1.1K =20
<img src=3D"/icons/text.gif" alt=3D"[TXT]" /> <a href=3D"mrtg-rrd.cgi">=
mrtg-rrd.cgi</a> 23-Jan-2003 13:30 24K =20
<img src=3D"/icons/text.gif" alt=3D"[TXT]" /> <a href=3D"mrtg-rrd.cgi-1=
=2E20">mrtg-rrd.cgi-1.20</a> 31-Jan-2003 16:25 24K =20
<img src=3D"/icons/text.gif" alt=3D"[TXT]" /> <a href=3D"mrtg-rrd.cgi.0=
00">mrtg-rrd.cgi.000</a> 14-Jan-2003 12:55 24K =20
<img src=3D"/icons/folder.gif" alt=3D"[DIR]" /> <a href=3D"mrtg/">mrtg/=
</a> 18-Apr-2003 15:36 - =20
<img src=3D"/icons/text.gif" alt=3D"[TXT]" /> <a href=3D"nwc.cgi">nwc.c=
gi</a> 17-Nov-2002 08:04 12K =20
<img src=3D"/icons/text.gif" alt=3D"[TXT]" /> <a href=3D"nwc.css">nwc.c=
ss</a> 17-Nov-2002 08:04 2.0K =20
<img src=3D"/icons/unknown.gif" alt=3D"[ ]" /> <a href=3D"nwc.php">nw=
c.php</a> 17-Nov-2002 08:04 12K =20
<hr /></pre>
<address>Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 Server at localhost Port 80</ad=
dress>
</body></html>
If you want that without all of the HTML fluff:
% lynx -dump -nolist http://localhost/~matthew/
=20
Index of /~matthew
=20
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
_____________________________________________________________________=
_____
=20
=20
Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 Server at localhost Port 80
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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