How to get an NSarray of all file names in a directory on a remote server?

Question

How do I get an NSArray of the NAMES of all files stored in a specific directory such as: "http://www.someurl/somedirectory/"?

Answer 1

That's really something that has to be generated server-side, then parsed on the device. I know Apache has an option where you can turn on Directory Indexes, so you could do that, then download the generated directory index and parse the HTML (using an NSXMLParser or some other parsing library), adding an NSString to an NSMutableArray every time you find a file name.

Answer 2

Should be something along these lines..

NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://address.tld/path/files.txt"];
NSString* data = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL: url];

if(data)
{
    NSArray* files = [data componentsSeparatedByString: @"\n"];

    for(NSString* filename in files)
    {
        NSLog(@"%@", filename);
    }
}