Re: Find default web page of a directory
"Tommy" <bad@reallybad.com> wrote in message
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Igor Tandetnik wrote:
"jain" <jain2005k@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I need to find the default webpage from a webdirectory using vc++.
Ie. If the folder is www.somedomain.com/dir1/dir2/, some times
there is a default web page such as. Index.html, default.html,
default.asp. If there is any method in VC++ to find out the default
page using the address of the directory, please help me.
It can't be done in general.
Of course it can. How will a C/C++, VB IIS manager and 3rd party
ADD-ONs work then? :-)
You are talking about detecting settings of an HTTP server from the
computer the server is running on. I thought the OP wanted to detect
settings of a server from a different computer, talking to the server
over HTTP. Perhaps I misunderstood the question, but the reference to
www.somedomain.com/dir1/dir2/ seems to suggest the detection needs to
work for an arbitrary directory on an arbitrary domain.
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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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