Roku Developer Program

[kronusdark]

I'm new here but i'm wondering if theres a way I can connect to an http server and get the contents of a path. You know how when you connect to an apache server and if there is no index it just lists all the files? Is there a way that I can get that data? i read through the sdk documents and all the stuff i can find seems like you need to already know the file you want to pull. is this true?

thanks.

[stratcat96]

you can use an roUrltransfer and the "get" command to send header requests to the server and parse the responses for the info you're looking for I believe. You do though need to know what request to send to give you the desired information in the response. I could be wrong tho 🙂

[kbenson]

"kronusdark" wrote:
IYou know how when you connect to an apache server and if there is no index it just lists all the files?

That's generally a configuration on the server, and is actually the server generating HTML on the fly for the contents. As such, it won't be quite as easy to use through code, but it isn't impossible either. As stratcat96 mentioned, you can use the roURLTransfer object to get the content, but you may need to parse the content it to get the info you want.

[kronusdark]

thanks, that will help alot!