[Tutor] listing files in an html directory

Luke Paireepinart rabidpoobear at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 19:57:44 CEST 2007


John Washakie wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to write a program which will take a path, look in it for
> all files matching a certain pattern, then create javascript player to
> play them. A key part of the code at this point is:
>
> searchPath = imageRoot + '*' + imgExt
> avail = glob.glob(searchPath)  #will glob work over http?
>
> where searchPath is constructed from imageRoot and imgExt which are
> user input variables. I don't think glob will work over http, is there
> a urllib version perhaps? Any suggestions?
>   
Most http servers disallow directory listing.
Even ones that do (like Apache default) there has to be no index.html in 
the directory, and they
dump the directory listing to a webpage you'd have to parse.
-Luke


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