http directory index request

Mark Norman (mnorman@hposl41.cup.hp.com)
Tue, 16 Apr 1996 10:32:53 -0700

What is the HTTP request that returns a list of the files in a directory? This
is obviously a no-brainer since all of the browsers can make this request, but
I don't see anything in the documentation I have on HTTP that describes this. I
am looking at the document from the IETF which has this header:

HTTP Working Group R. Fielding, UC Irvine
INTERNET-DRAFT H. Frystyk, MIT/LCS
<draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-01.txt> T. Berners-Lee, MIT/LCS
Expires in six months January 19, 1996

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

Thank you.