some simple questions on online-folder view

[Peterken]

First:
I know how to "hide" folder contents from occasional browsers by just
putting an index.htm in the folder they aren't allowed to list.
That dummy "index.htm" contains the meta redirect-tag
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
url=http://users.somewhere.com/my.location">
where the "normal" entry sits waiting for visitors.

Now my less simple question:
Is there a way to circumvent this and still get a directory listing ?
If any I'd like to know of it (and experiment with it) to try "catch" it
too.....

Second:
I have been experimenting a bit with the tags
<link REL="ICON"
href="http://users.somewhere.com/my.location/burro0_1b2.gif"
type="image/gif" />
<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON"
href="http://users.somewhere.com/my.location/burro0_1b2.gif"
type="image/gif" />
with and without the "image/gif" things, and with and without .ico and in
formats 16x16 , 32x32, and others, colordepths 16 and higher....

None of them "settles" in IExplorer :-(

Any ideas ???

thx

 

[brucie]

I know how to "hide" folder contents from occasional browsers by just
putting an index.htm in the folder they aren't allowed to list.

theres a better method than that. i was going to give you a detailed answer
but i'm not sure which group you want the answer in so i don't think i'll
bother wasting my time.

Crosspost, don't multipost
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost
Why and how to crosspost
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

 

[Peterken]

theres a better method than that. i was going to give you a detailed
answer
but i'm not sure which group you want the answer in so i don't think i'll
bother wasting my time.

Crosspost, don't multipost
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost
Why and how to crosspost
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

Well, since there are many newsgroups on html I indeed posted this same
question in several groups seeing that lots of them aren't visited and
hoping somewhere someone has the right answers....

And answering it with as litle as a link takes as much time of you and space
in this group as your non-answer did :-S

 

[David Dorward]

I know how to "hide" folder contents from occasional browsers by just
putting an index.htm in the folder
Is there a way to circumvent this and still get a directory listing ?
No.

<link REL="ICON"
with and without the "image/gif" things, and with and without .ico and in
formats 16x16 , 32x32, and others, colordepths 16 and higher....

None of them "settles" in IExplorer :-(

IE can only cope with Windows Icon Format (Windows can use Windows Icon
Format and regular Bitmaps with a .iso extension - IE only copes with the
former for this).

It is likely that it will only pay attention when the page is bookmarked.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Well, since there are many newsgroups on html I indeed posted
this same question in several groups seeing that lots of them
aren't visited and hoping somewhere someone has the right
answers....

Read what you were just told. Read the links. The problem is HOW
you posted to more than one group.

 

[Matt - EditMe.com]

Peterken,

I'm not sure about the second question, but the first one depends on
your web server. Whether the web server provides a directory listing
when a default (index.htm) file isn't found is a configuration matter
for the web server. If you're host is using apache (most are), you can
configure this yourself using an .htaccess file. This page tells you
how:

http://www.devwebpro.com/devwebpro-39-20030416htaccess-Magic.html

If your host is using IIS, you'll need to ask them how to do it - there
might be a control panel or something.

Cheers,
Matt

 

[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, Peterken quothed:

First:
I know how to "hide" folder contents from occasional browsers by just
putting an index.htm in the folder they aren't allowed to list.
That dummy "index.htm" contains the meta redirect-tag
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
url=http://users.somewhere.com/my.location">
where the "normal" entry sits waiting for visitors.

Now my less simple question:
Is there a way to circumvent this and still get a directory listing ?
If any I'd like to know of it (and experiment with it) to try "catch" it
too.....

Don't know, but probably not.

Second:
I have been experimenting a bit with the tags
<link REL="ICON"
href="http://users.somewhere.com/my.location/burro0_1b2.gif"
type="image/gif" />
<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON"
href="http://users.somewhere.com/my.location/burro0_1b2.gif"
type="image/gif" />
with and without the "image/gif" things, and with and without .ico and in
formats 16x16 , 32x32, and others, colordepths 16 and higher....

None of them "settles" in IExplorer :-(

The "favicon" system in IE is broken, plain and simple. Hopefully IE7
will address this non-functional conundrum.