I'm working in VB6. I have a group of folders online with about 8000 files in various directories. These files and directories may change over time, so I need the client program to be able to know all the paths to all the files in the online directory so he can just ask for any given file by path and filename, and have all the latest directory info when he logs on.
Is there a built in function that does this, or am I gonna have to get the client to parse through the HTML code of the server's Index file and manually build the file list each time? So far that's plan A. But if anyone knows any shortcuts, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Ps. By Online directory, I mean a server is serving the files from a directory structure on its hard drive. If files are added, renamed, rearranged, or deleted, the client needs to know about it. When you just type a folder name into a URL, the server returns an HTML page with a listing of its files and subdirectories in href tags. I'm hoping to avoid having to parse through such a file if I can.
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