Downloading the contents of a web directory?

Question

If I have example.com/dir and dir is basically a folder in the example.com server then how can I download the conteents of the folder to my hard drive?

Answer 1

Is this a webserver and you download over the net? Then (with shell access) you might try:

$ wget --wait 2 -rkc --no-parent http://example.com/dir

Works with ftp, too.