reading directory

[raouleduke]

I want to be able to list all the files in a directory on out IIS Server on our Web Server. I am using this code but doesn't seem to work, am I missing something here. It works just fine if I am requesting from the Web Server.

   if ($handle = opendir('http://68.178.35.108/BETTS/')) {
    echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
    echo "Files:\n";

/* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
    echo "$file\n";
}

   closedir($handle);
}

[bradgrafelman]

That's because you can't open a directory handler resource across HTTP. If you visit the page in your web browser, you're not seeing a directory listing... you're seeing a simple HTML page outputted by IIS that's no different than any other .html file on your server.

To get a list of files... you might be able to parse the page's contents using regular expression. Other than that, I can't thnk of a reliable method (other than FTP or something like that).