I'm a bit of a novice here, so please be patient if some of my questions have "obvious" answers. To this point I have been able to answer many of my questions through existing posts, but not with this one. Anyway...

Is there an existing script/library function that will convert an ftp directory listing to an html page? For various reasons I am unable to directly open the ftp directory in a web browser (I would be forced to use ftp://user:pass@host, but can not have the password shown in the address in the browser; IE is too stupid to ask for the password is I simply use ftp://user@host; and various other problems I won't go into...). I can use Net:FTP to get a directory listing from the FTP site, but now need to use that to generate an html page much like the one you would see when you open an ftp directory into a web browser normally (with links for each file and directory, etc.)

It seems like there should be something in place to do this already, since web browsers seem to do it just fine -- any suggestions?

Thanks.

In reply to How to generate an HTML page from an FTP directory listing? by Anonymous Monk

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