Re: Samba and web pages

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 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.