Getting File and Folder List from Remote Server in PHP

Question

When I run:

$url='foldername';
$dir = opendir($url);

//List files in images directory
while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
  {

  echo "filename: " . $file . "<br />";
  }
closedir($dir); 

...it outputs:

filename: a.gif 
filename: file.html
filename: g.gif
filename: gg.html

I would like to see all the files and folders on another server from the URL:

$url="http ://example.com"

How do I find the files and folder names from example.com?

Answer 1

It is possible. Just got to go outside the box. Only flaw with this is index output

<?
    $matches = array();
    preg_match_all("/(a href\=\")([^\?\"]*)(\")/i", get_text('http://www.website.com/ images/'), $matches);
    foreach($matches[2] as $match)
    {
        echo $match . '<br>';
    }

    function get_text($filename)
    {
        $fp_load = fopen("$filename", "rb");
        if ( $fp_load )
        {
            while ( !feof($fp_load) )
            {
                $content .= fgets($fp_load, 8192);
            }
            fclose($fp_load);
        return $content;
        }
    }
?>

Answer 2

http:// does not support directory listing. What you're trying to do is impossible.

Answer 3

It's impossible of course, otherwise websites would be much more vulnerable since anyone could explore their directories tree!

If you have another way of accessing that website (e.g. if it's yours), like FTP or SSH, it becomes possible.