Download all files in a directory in a server

[heolun4mat]

I have used NSURLConnection to download a single file successfully but now I don't know how to download all files in a directory in a server.
Example: if the url is: http://www.example.com/directory/ => download all files in this directory. If the url is http://www.example.com/directory/ex.jpg => just download this file. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

[PhoneyDeveloper]

There is no standard way to get a file listing of an arbitrary file server. I know that Apache will give a listing of the files in a directory but it's in an html format which your code would need to parse and which might differ for different versions of Apache.

Not sure how you work around this.

[Don]

Quite often web servers are configured explicitly to NOT allow directory listings - in fact, that's the default on IIS.

The only approach that would be reliable would be to put a script on your server that returns a list of files in the directory. Have your app call that script, stuff the results in an array, and then loop through retrieving one file at a time.

- Don

[roeik]

Originally Posted by Don

Quite often web servers are configured explicitly to NOT allow directory listings - in fact, that's the default on IIS.

The only approach that would be reliable would be to put a script on your server that returns a list of files in the directory. Have your app call that script, stuff the results in an array, and then loop through retrieving one file at a time.

- Don

Hi,

I have the same exact issue. I need to download all the files in a folder. The folder contains a csv with the names of all the files in the server.

So if I have the name of all the files in the folder, (around 200-300 images), what would be the best approach to download them all?

[web20devxer]

Originally Posted by roeik

Hi,

I have the same exact issue. I need to download all the files in a folder. The folder contains a csv with the names of all the files in the server.

So if I have the name of all the files in the folder, (around 200-300 images), what would be the best approach to download them all?

You will need to read the contents of the CSV in a array for example and process each file at a time.


There are numerous examples on how to read a file on the forum.

-open url connection
- read file contents into an array for example
- loop thru array and process each file