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Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:12:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 05:58:50PM +0000, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
> > I've written a perl subroutine (thanks, Paul Hartzog) which finds all the files
> > in a directory and returns some HTML code for thumbnails with links to those
> > images. Is there a way I can modify this code so it can work with a URL
> > instead of a directory? For example, so I can make thumbnail links to all the
> > images in my Brickshelf gallery...
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> no simple way - since the script assumes you have local access to the
> directory... and since there is no real way of you knowing what files are
> in a directory on the webserver, unless it allows you to list them. the
> only thing you can do is write some sort of spider, that will follow all
> the links on a page... but that's a different story.
If you want to use URLs to retrieve files, there is the Perl module LWP
which has a "User Agent" tool. I use it to retrieve a set of web pages each
week. With Brickshelf you can't get a plain list of your directory though.
But you could make a short UserAgent (and HTML::Parser) that looked through
that for things specific to Brickshelf's returned page, like links to
gallery.cgi or names of jpg or gifs. It's not complicated to put together,
but, it's not exactly obvious either.
Besides, it's also illegal now--Altavista is going to sue anybody who uses
this algorithm because they patented it. So be careful. (Yeah, right.)
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| (...) Hmm, seems like it wouldn't be too hard to make a script that lists of all the images in a Brickshelf folder if that script was running on the Brickshelf server... Would you be willing to do that, Kevin? I don't know how useful it would be for (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) no simple way - since the script assumes you have local access to the directory... and since there is no real way of you knowing what files are in a directory on the webserver, unless it allows you to list them. the only thing you can do is (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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