[jetty-discuss] Re: Directory listing format

[Silvio B. <sbi...@id...>]

Hello Chris,

Thanks for the reply. I have already written some code to generate directory
contents in XML or text formats but I wanted to be able to do this with any
directory with static content that is served by Jetty via a ResourceHandler.

That is why I would have loved to see ResourceHandler support
parameterization of the directory output format through a HTTP header,
possible something like Accept-Encoding=text/plain resulting in a
line-separated plain-text listing. For most purposes this would be more than
enough but an Accept-Encoding=text/xml would be nice too.

I don't really like filters and am not very fond of the idea to introduce
them for this purpose. I can see the problem in detecting a directory
listing request outside the ResourceHandler.

Regards,

Silvio Bierman


"Chris Haynes" <ch...@ha...> wrote in message
news:080f01c4d077$ce5c0800$0200000a@ringo...
> Hmm,  I can see the usefulness of this in e.g. FTP-like situations.
>
> I agree that generating correct XHTML would seem to be desirable
(throughout
> Jetty!).
>
> However parsing a whole web page for this purpose is still somewhat
> unsatisfactory - what if Jetty decided to change the visual layout?
Grubbing
> around amongst relatively-unstructured data is not my idea of reliable
> computing.
>
> Would it not be better if you were to write your own simple servlet to
generate
> a 'pure' XML response (i.e. not HTML-compatible) which contained the
directory
> listing in a properly DTDed format? (i.e. Content-Type: application/xml).
>
> This would give FTP-like clients exactly what is needed.
>
> I'm not sure how you would invoke this without burrowing into Jetty code,
i.e.
> how you could recognise a request for a directory listing and hence invoke
this
> servlet.  Maybe this can / should be done as a Filter.
>
> And maybe this could be donated to Jetty-extras - it could be quite useful
for a
> number of people.
>
> Nice student project for someone!
>
> HTH
>
> Chris Haynes
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Silvio Bierman" <sbi...@id...>
> To: <jet...@li...>
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:49 AM
> Subject: [jetty-discuss] Directory listing format
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I want to automatically read the directory listings that Jetty
generates.
> > Unfortunately, the HTML is not completely well-formed XML. The <table
> > border=0> for example makes using an XML parser impossible. Having to
use
> > jtidy-like stuff takes to much extra processing for my purposes. Can the
> > format Jetty generates be influenced by a URL parameter or a HTTP
header?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Silvio Bierman
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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