Re: Find default web page of a directory

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:55:41 -0500
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"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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