[SOLVED] Download list of files from server?

JavaScript
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I don’t mind using beefed up JavaScript-based tools like Node.js, if that lets me avoid server-side scripting.

What about using XMLHttpRequest() ? I just tried it, and it does work to retrieve the contents of the page.

The next step would be to use a regex to extract the filenames from the first column.

<html>
<body>
	<script type="text/javascript">
    function loadXMLDoc(theURL)
    {
        if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
        {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey
            xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
        else
        {// code for IE6, IE5
            xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
        }
        xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
        {
            if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
            {
                alert(xmlhttp.responseText);
            }
        }
        xmlhttp.open("GET", theURL, false);
        xmlhttp.send();
    }

	var xmlhttp=false;
	//loadXMLDoc('http://192.168.0.12:8080/list.txt');
	loadXMLDoc('http://192.168.0.12:8080/testdir/');
	if(xmlhttp==false)
		{ /* set timeout or alert() */ }
	else
		{ /* assign `xmlhttp.responseText` to some var */ }
		var contents = xmlhttp.responseText;
		alert(contents);
	</script>
		
</body>
</html>