How does that work

[Rudi Menter]

There are programs like Teleport pro that are able to
access any public file at any public directory on a website.

What method(s) do those programs use in order to retrieve
the file list of a given directory?

Rgds!
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[Sanders Kaufman]

Rudi Menter wrote:

There are programs like Teleport pro that are able to
access any public file at any public directory on a website.

What method(s) do those programs use in order to retrieve
the file list of a given directory?

Even though you can have a default file (like index.html), you may also
enable directory browsing.
On the HTTP level (sockets) you can request a directory listing instead
of the default file.

I think you can user Gopher protocol to do that, too.

[Rudi Menter]

Sanders Kaufman wrote:

Rudi Menter wrote:

Even though you can have a default file (like index.html), you
may also enable directory browsing. On the HTTP level (sockets)
you can request a directory listing instead of the default file.

Thank you Sanders.
Does anyone even know a site for an actual code listing?

Rgds
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