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John Chambers wrote: > Robert Krawitz commented: > | Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:21:37 -0500 > | From: "John Abreau" <[hidden email]> > | > | This isn't handled in the browser at all. Apache has a > | user-overridable function for listing a directory, and its default > | function for listing a directory happens to look for a sequence of > | files such as index.html, and if it finds one of these, it returns > | it; otherwise it generates a directory listing. > | > | In the absence of apache, or other http-server software that > | implements the same behavior, you simply won't get this behavior. > | > | A browser could certainly emulate the behavior when browsing a local > | directory. > > Yeah, but which ones do? Actually, I spent a few minutes testing on a > handy machine with a dozen browsers installed, and the browsers that > I tried all produced some sort of listing of directories.
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