On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:42:26PM -0800, Ganesh Ragavan wrote:
> Is there a way to determine if the file I am requesting is a file or a
> directory?
>
> I would like to return an error if the user requests a directory instead of a
> file in libcurl. Is there any way I could do that?

Using HTTP? There's no 100% reliable way. You could use the PROPFIND command
on a WebDAV server to find out, or you could use some heuristics to guess on
a regular HTTP server (e.g. URLs ending in / are probably directories,
URLs redirecting to URLs ending in / too, or look at the resulting HTML and
guess). But most web servers treat requests to a directory as requests
to list the files in that directory without providing a consistent
machine-readable way to tell that that's what's been done.

>>> Dan

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