Re: Directory Indexing

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:06:19 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.publicfile
Organization	What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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Claudio Leite <[email protected]> wrote:
>   I've implemented a default-block filter on my machine to keep users from
> starting up servers and the like, but it stopped FTP from working (I don't
> know why... it works in active, but not in passive mode).

Passive mode works by creating a listening socket on a new port.
<URL:http://cr.yp.to/ftp/retr.html>

> My query is: is there a program that'll generate an index.html for me with
> a directory list?

There are plenty.  Here's one in Python:
<URL:http://multivac.cwru.edu./prj/indexhtml.py>

paul