Load websites w/o index.html ?

[Starfox00000]

I was just wondering if anyone knows if its possible to load a dir of the files on a site (as if there were no index.html) when there is an index.html. I heard that an old version of netscape could do this, but couldn't find out which version. If anyone knows thx in advance.

 

[DelJo63]

I think your asking if you can have a webserver directory which does not have
the index.html file present.

Yes you can -- the webserver, if properly configured will display a tree view
of the files in that directory -- much like an GUI-FTP view.

btw: the server can also be configured to look for other types of default pages,
index.phtml, default.html, and even default.asp (on an IIS server).

 

[Nodsu]

He wants the directory listing, even though the index is present.

No, unless the server is seriously misconfigured, you cannot do it. One can always find a security hole and exploit that of course..

 

[DelJo63]

it's actually quite simple to generate a list

[B]ls [COLOR="Red"]ZZ[/COLOR] | awk ' {print "<a href=\"" $1 "\">" $1 "</a><br> \n"} '>theDirList.html[/B]

if the browser were to access dirname/theDirList.html, the user would
see a simple list of links to the file names

optional values to use in place of ZZ
* would list all files
*.html would list only html files (specifically in lower case
*.{html,HTML} list all html files in both cases
*.jpg list all jpeg files in lower case
*.mov list all quicktime movies

such a script could be entered manual on a telnet or SSH session
or wrapped into a shell script and launched any time by direct reference