QUESTION: How to get a remote directory file listing

[Stephen Quinn Barncard]

Thanks to Andre Garzia for his little stack which answered most of my 
questions...

For me, the main question answered is that the directory info back 
from the URL command needs to be called twice and PARSED (we don't 
get a simple list right away) and also the libURLSetFTPListCommand 
libURL call must be used.

ALSO  everyone was quite right in saying that, of course, the FTP URL 
is going to be a different path than an HTTP one.   Ideally, I'd like 
to get everything through HTTP calls without sending pass/user but 
then I'd have to parse the HTML that is happily provided by the web 
server when a directory only request is made (and might be different 
between server OS's.??)

Is that the way that all FTP clients work, by parsing plain text 
returned from the FTP server?

I'm asking if FTP servers have no 'binary' mode for transferring 
directory listings? -- it's all text except when exchanging data?

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