## Access Directory Listing from Client Side
This code can list the contents of a directory on the
server that is serving a webpage running the code.
## Requirement
In order for this to work, Apache needs to be running `mod-autoindex`.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.xml
## Sorting and Formatting
Apache autoindexing allows basic sorting and formating by
appending a query string.
For instance, `http://someserver/somepath/somedir/?C=M;O=A` will
sort the listing by modification date in ascending order.
* C=N sorts the directory by file name
* C=M sorts the directory by last-modified date, then file name
* C=S sorts the directory by size, then file name
* C=D sorts the directory by description, then file name
* O=A sorts the listing in Ascending Order
* O=D sorts the listing in Descending Order
* F=0 formats the listing as a simple list (not FancyIndexed)
* F=1 formats the listing as a FancyIndexed list
* F=2 formats the listing as an HTMLTable FancyIndexed list
* V=0 disables version sorting
* V=1 enables version sorting
* P=pattern lists only files matching the given pattern
var url = "http://someserver/somepath/somedir/?C=M;O=A";
$.get(url, (data) =>
{
console.log(data);
let listing = parseDirectoryListing(data);
$('body').append(JSON.stringify(listing));
});
function parseDirectoryListing(text)
{
let docs = text
.match(/href="([\w]+)/g) // pull out the hrefs
.map((x) => x.replace('href="', '')); // clean up
console.log(docs);
return docs;
}