Muddy Coder schrieb: > Hi Folks, > > I feel good after played urllib with fun! > > Now I want to LOOK to server through urllib. I read the urllib docs, > but I did not find such a function. For example, if there are many > files located in http://www.somedomain.com/data_folder, but I don't > know what the filenames are residing in the data_folder. I wish urllib > would have a function to let me do it, as well as I do 'dir' in DOS, > 'ls' on unix/linux. Somebody write me a demo? Thanks!
The WebDAV [1] extension to the HTTP protocol supports the desired feature. Are you able to teach your webserver WebDAV by any chance? All major HTTP server have plugins for WebDAV. Christian [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdav -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list