Managing Files and Folders 

Listing files from HTTP sites 

T

O LIST FILES ON 

HTTP 

SITES

1.  Connect to an HTTP site within CuteFTP Professional. 

2.  Files on the site will be listed in the remote pane. 

C

ONFIGURATION NOTES

When you connect to HTTP sites in CuteFTP, the sites do not list file sizes, attributes, or 

dates like FTP sites do. This is because HTTP listings are not actual lists of files on the 

server. 

CuteFTP downloads the server's index.html file and parses it, looking for links. Each link is 

then listed as an available file in the HTTP site's window. Because this is not an actual file 

listing, there may be files on the HTTP site not accessible to CuteFTP. Also, some of the 

files may just be links that lead to another HTTP site. 

If you connect to an HTTP site that does not support the listing of folder contents, 

CuteFTP attempts to guess the contents of the HTTP server by scanning its Web pages.  

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