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Brent Thompson wrote:

> I'm still having problems.  Here is an example of the code
>
>  URL myURL = new URL("http://www.xyz.com/news/");  // this is a
> directory
>  File myFile = new File(myURL);
>    if(myFile.isDirectory() != false)
>      {
>      System.out.println("this is a directory!!!!!");
>      }
> /./ etc
>
> myFile.isDirectory doesn't work here.. I would like to open up a
> directory, and get a list
> of its subdirectories.

Oh, off of a URL.  Hrm.  java.io.File is probably meant for localized
file access.  Although the constructor for File() takes a string, it's
probably looking for something like 'c:\autoexec.bat', '/etc/passwd',
or just 'myfile.txt'.

You might want to look into the HTTP specs and see if there are
calls you can exploit to determine such information.  If it's possible,
you'll need to open a socket to the web server and ask it the
appropiate syntax, receive a stream back, parse it, and deal with
the parsed text.


Andrew
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