Is there a way to open a URL, one that shows nothing other than a directory 
listing, and iteratively go through the list to download the files?

On Aug 2, 5:15 am, "Jim Bancroft"  wrote:

> Is there a way to open a URL, one that shows nothing other than a directory
> listing, and iteratively go through the list to download the files?


Hi Jim,

you can use a HttpWebRequest with a StreamReader to get the page from
the URL, then the content of the page can be parsed with a regular
expression to get the list of all links and then again use
HttpWebRequest to get the files...

Hope it helps

Hi,

Alexey Smirnov wrote:

> On Aug 2, 5:15 am, "Jim Bancroft"  wrote:
>> Is there a way to open a URL, one that shows nothing other than a directory
>> listing, and iteratively go through the list to download the files?
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> you can use a HttpWebRequest with a StreamReader to get the page from
> the URL, then the content of the page can be parsed with a regular
> expression to get the list of all links and then again use
> HttpWebRequest to get the files...
> 
> Hope it helps


I did that a long time ago with a Java applet. I then discovered that 
the page format was different in Netscape (back then) and IE. I hope 
things are more standard now!

HTH,
Laurent
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On Aug 2, 10:50 am, "Laurent Bugnion, MVP" 
wrote:


> the page format was different in Netscape (back then) and IE. I hope
> things are more standard now!


Laurent, do you mean that the default directory listing depends on the
client browser? It depends on a web server and not on a browser. I
have no example for IIS, but here's the one for Apache

Default settings:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/default-servlet.html

Example how it looks on the website:
http://cohred.org/cohred/content/

When directory browsing in enabled on a web site and there isn't a
default document available, IIS will display the contents of the
directory as a similar page and it looks the same in IE, and other
browsers

Hi,

Alexey Smirnov wrote:

> On Aug 2, 10:50 am, "Laurent Bugnion, MVP" 
> wrote:
> 
>> the page format was different in Netscape (back then) and IE. I hope
>> things are more standard now!
> 
> Laurent, do you mean that the default directory listing depends on the
> client browser? It depends on a web server and not on a browser. I
> have no example for IIS, but here's the one for Apache


Back then, the client browser used to add content to the directory 
listing page. I tested again right now in Firefox and IE, and apparently 
this is not the case anymore, so you're lucky!

I am talking about Netspace 4 and IE4, that was back in... not sure... 
97 maybe?

Anyway, good luck with your project!
Laurent
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On Aug 2, 1:22 pm, "Laurent Bugnion, MVP" 
wrote:

>
> I am talking about Netspace 4 and IE4, that was back in... not sure...
> 97 maybe?


Huh? We are talking about ASP.NET :-)

Hi,

Alexey Smirnov wrote:

> On Aug 2, 1:22 pm, "Laurent Bugnion, MVP" 
> wrote:
>> I am talking about Netspace 4 and IE4, that was back in... not sure...
>> 97 maybe?
> 
> Huh? We are talking about ASP.NET :-)


Yeah I was rambling. Your post awoke old nostalgies, sorry :-) I'll shut 
up now. :-)

Laurent
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