On Saturday, October 24, 2009, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote: >>On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:30 PM, I wrote: >>> GET requests which would otherwise look for an index.html file but are set >>> up with something like this: >>> >>> HTTP://domain.com/somedirectory/?C=xx;O=yy >>> >>> seem to reply with a formatted list of directory contents. Can someone >>> point me to some documentation for that? Googling for "?C=M;O=A" gets >>> hundreds of examples but no docs. >>> >>> > At 12:45 -0700 10/23/09, Jonathan Zuckerman wrote: >> >>Wow, don't even know where to begin. We're all happy to help but this >>question is nonsensical, can you be any more specific? This miiight >>be what you're looking for: >>http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_dir.html >> > > That was the hint I needed. It turns out that > <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html> > has this to say: > > * C=N sorts the directory by file name > * C=M sorts the directory by last-modified date, then file name > * C=S sorts the directory by size, then file name > * C=D sorts the directory by description, then file name > * O=A sorts the listing in Ascending Order > * O=D sorts the listing in Descending Order > * F=0 formats the listing as a simple list (not FancyIndexed) > * F=1 formats the listing as a FancyIndexed list > * F=2 formats the listing as an HTMLTable FancyIndexed list > * V=0 disables version sorting > * V=1 enables version sorting > * P=pattern lists only files matching the given pattern > > The summary seems to say that one can have mod_dir OR mod_autoindex but not > both. But it also says that use of index.html is controlled by mod_dir. I > need to get read access to the config file for my hosting service and that > might be difficult. A GET aimed at a directory does deliver my own index.html > if it's there. But sometimes I don't want to bother with that and apache, as > installed by pair.com, does deliver a list of files that a visitor can click > on. Is it _dir or _autoindex is the question I shall ask. > > Thanks for the helping hand. > > -- > --> If it's not on fire it's a software problem. <-- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > " from the digest: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
And I learned something too, I hadn't realized you could pass querystring parameters to order results in the automatic index, and your original question actually makes a lot of sense now --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] " from the digest: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
