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From: Ganesh Ragavan <ganeshragavan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:42:26 -0800

Hello,

Is there a way to determine if the file I am requesting is a file or a
directory?

I would like to return an error if the user requests a directory instead of
a file in libcurl. Is there any way I could do that?

I am not able to determine much from the header:

If the url is of the format http://url/shelflog/ the header is (where
shelflog is a directory)

HTTP/1.1 200 Document follows
MIME-Version: 1.1
Server: <>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:29:57 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain

If the url is of the format http://url/shelflog (where shelflog again is a
directory)

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
MIME-Version: 1.1
Server: <>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:30:28 GMT
Content-Length: 278
Content-Type: text/html
Location: /url/shelflog/

Thanks,
Ganesh
Received on 2008-03-03