CODEWITHSUNDEEP
java
pisuvar
pisuvar

Reputation: 267

Listing the name of the files under some url using java

I want to list every file with extension of ".png" under some url for example

"http://kgs:8080/KGS/assets/"

I want to retrieve the name of the file such as 

background.png
foreground.png

How can i do this java?

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 89

Answers (2)

Jiri Kremser
Jiri Kremser

Reputation: 12847

If the content (the files) is not accessible from the html pages, it is impossible to get it without brute-forcing and guessing the paths. If the files are linked from the html pages, you may want to use some crawler for it.

Upvotes: 1

Joni
Joni

Reputation: 111369

The HTTP protocol does not have a method for listing files in a directory, so this can't be done in the general case.

If a request made to http://kgs:8080/KGS/assets/ returns the directory listing in HTML, like some web servers do, you can parse that listing to obtain a list of URLs. Then you go over each URL and check if they end with .png.

Upvotes: 2

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