Listing files of a folder present in the http server

Question

I have a question related to Http. In android how to list the files of a folder which is in Http server.

I am able to Download file from server. But I want to check fil

Answer 1

You will need a server side script to list the files such as this one in PHP

Place the file in the directory with all the files you want to see, called listfiles.php

';
            $thelist = $thelist.$file."\r\n";
          }
       }
  closedir($handle);
  }
 echo $thelist;
?>

Then in your android java app, you will download the file, and then build an array of the filenames for your processing.

String serverFile = "path on your server/listfiles.php";
String listOfFiles = DownloadText(serverFile);
String[] linesOfFiles = listOfFiles.split("
");

Then you have a string array of all of the files on the server. I have not included the code for the DownloadText function, but that is very standard and you can find it easily. It will download any text file over HTTP.

HTH