| Jeff Abrahamson on 30 Aug 2004 14:32:12 -0000 |
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:06:14AM -0400, Jeff McAdams wrote:
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> Paul wrote:
> > How would one tell a utility like wget, curl, or WinHTTrack to grab
> > *all* mp3 files, for example, from a HTTP directory hidden by a blank
> > "index.html" page? I can grab individual files when I ask for them by
> > name. Otherwise, all I get is the blank "index.html" page.
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> Short of having either an index page or some other page that contains
> links to the individual files, or being able to use something like a DAV
> method like proplist or propget (or whatever the DAV property methods
> are), you're pretty much screwed as any web client depends, in that
> situation, on the web server to tell it what the filenames are available
> to it, either through links that can be crawled, or the relevant DAV
> properties. If neither of those are available to you, you're pretty
> much out of luck.
>
> FWIW, I don't think wget or curl support any DAV-type of stuff yet in
> any case.
But this is cool:
http://dav.sourceforge.net/
WEB-DAV Linux File System (davfs2)
It admittedly doesn't solve his problem, it's just related and cool...
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Jeff
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