Zitat von Avinash <pavinash_at_gmail.com>:

> Yes right. Let me rephrase it.
> I want know the list of files that I can download using cURL when I give
> input an HTTP URL.
> I only want to download the list and not all files in order to know in prior
> the metadata like number of files, their sizes etc.
>
> Is there any way to do it using cURL/wget ?

Hi Avinash,

As people already pointed out here the HTTP protocol does not know the
concept of a "directory" or "file" and has therefore no feature to
request a "list of files" from a HTTP server.
You, your program (curl/wget/browser whatever) requests a URL, which
contains an arbitrary request string and the server sends back some
arbitrary data. If this reply happens to be "a list of files" it might
help you. If not there is nothing that the requesting program can do.

Best regards,
J. Roderburg

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Received on 2010-05-18