[ale] apache ftp description

[Keith Hopkins]

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Hi guys - hopefully this is an easy question.  The latest versions of 
> apache support "Descriptions" for filenames when viewed ala ftp (and 
> indexes I think).  For example, at:  
> http://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.1.2/src/  and many other 
> sites, you'll see a Description field.  I'd like to start seeing this 
> used more, and I'd like to implement it myself in order to help 
> proliferate it (hopefully).  Here's the cunundrum:
> 
> Everywhere I search for documentation on it, I wind up looking at 
> examples and ftp/index links - but no documentation.  Has anyone used 
> this function or can anyone point me to something useful that I read?  I 
> think I'm not looking in the right places...
> 

This may be what you are looking for...

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod/mod_autoindex.html#adddescription

That feature has been around for a while (exits in 1.3 at least).

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


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