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.NET Forum / ASP.NET / General / August 2007Iterating and downloading a URL that lists files?
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? > 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, >> 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? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > 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  SignatureLaurent Bugnion [MVP ASP.NET] Software engineering, Blog: http://www.galasoft.ch PhotoAlbum: http://www.galasoft.ch/pictures Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch On Aug 2, 10:50 am, "Laurent Bugnion, MVP" <galasoft...@bluewin.ch> 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, > On Aug 2, 10:50 am, "Laurent Bugnion, MVP" <galasoft...@bluewin.ch> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > 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 SignatureLaurent Bugnion [MVP ASP.NET] Software engineering, Blog: http://www.galasoft.ch PhotoAlbum: http://www.galasoft.ch/pictures Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch On Aug 2, 1:22 pm, "Laurent Bugnion, MVP" <galasoft...@bluewin.ch> 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, > On Aug 2, 1:22 pm, "Laurent Bugnion, MVP" <galasoft...@bluewin.ch> > 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 SignatureLaurent Bugnion [MVP ASP.NET] Software engineering, Blog: http://www.galasoft.ch PhotoAlbum: http://www.galasoft.ch/pictures Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch
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