There is really no such thing as an HTTP directory. URLs look like paths, but they might have nothing to do with files at all. Despite this, servers will sometimes serve up a "directory index" sometimes.

Besides guessing at URLs, the only way you figure out which URLs are available is to get someone to tell you (i.e. via a link on a page. Tools like WWW::Mechanize can help you with that. At a lower level, HTML::SimpleLinkExtor can grab links out of HTML.

You can also look at various web spiders to see how they do things.

If you have access to the filesystem (perhaps because it's one of your servers, you can get the list of files from the directory and then construct the URL. Besides that, maybe a case of beer would convince the IS people to give you a copy of what you need. :)

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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>

In reply to Re: Opening a web page directory by brian_d_foy
in thread Opening a web page directory by rhoadesjn

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