Re: Find default web page of a directory
"Tommy" <bad@reallybad.com> wrote in message
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Igor Tandetnik wrote:
"Tommy" <bad@reallybad.com> wrote in message
Igor Tandetnik wrote:
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.
Right it was not well stated.
But he wanted C++, and that only means server-side operations
I don't see how this follows. Are you suggesting one cannot implement an
HTTP client in C++? I can assure you it is quite possible.
Anyway, this argument seems to be rather pointless. Let's wait for a
clarification from the original poster.
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Igor Tandetnik
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