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How do I browse files on a web server

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  • 07-12-2001 8:37pm
    #1
    Samson
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    The Irish Times (www.ireland.com) have a specific server which holds all of the images for the online edition of the paper.
    The address of this image specific server is:
    http://images.ireland.com

    What I want to do is this:

    Browse the files on this server so that I can look through all of the photographs that they have used in the online editions of the paper (all images used since the paper went online are there I believe).

    Is this possible ?
    If so, can someone tell me how to do it ?

    When I put http://images.ireland.com into IE address bar I get the message "images only server" (thought I might get that folder tree you sometimes get on sites with no index page)


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    #2
    amp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    I'm fairly sure that that server is only there to speed up Ireland.com by independly serving images ie: all the images on ireland.com are http://images.ireland.com/...

    For what you want there'd need to be a page which would have links to the images which, because it would be processing requests for people like yourself, would negate it's reason for being there in the first place.

    I doubt the Irish times would go for such a page anyway as they have to pay royalties for each pic (afaik).


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    Mixie
    Registered Users Posts: 935 ✭✭✭Mixie


    If you have Getright, open it, click tools on the top toolbar, then Getright Browser. When the new window pops up stick in http://images.ireland.com/ in the address bar.


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    Samson
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    Amp, I think you are misunderstanding what I want to do.

    If this would work it would be the perfect solution:
    I open up "My Computer" on the desktop, I then open "web folders", I select Add Web Folder and add the address http://images.ireland.com etc.
    This does not work for a couple of reasons;
    1. can't connect to server
    2. if it could connect to server I would need user/pass which I don't have (or want).

    This process works fine for my own website and my company website.

    I don't want to use these images for any commercial purpose, just for research. They are available on the "online newspaper" but I don't want to trawl through a couple of years worth of newspapers to find the type of images I am looking for.


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    Static
    Registered Users Posts: 347 ✭✭Static


    As amp says, be careful about nabbing stuff from ireland.com. Itronics (the company who maintain the site) are copyright consious people (I know a guy or two in there), and if you start yoinking stuff left right and centre, they won't be pleased in the least ;)

    If you're going to do it anyway, there is an easier way of grabbing all the pictures belonging to keywords :) With the joys of google, I can get a fair number of their pics of george bush (random example) from:

    http://images.google.com/images?num=30&hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=site%3Aireland.com+bush

    you could get teleport pro or the like to yoink the images from the search results 8)

    Just a suggestion.


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    moist
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    Originally posted by Samson

    This process works fine for my own website and my company website.

    Their different servers though.
    The ability to get a directory listing is dependent on a configuration option on the web
    server, (Indexes under Apache).
    I would generally turn these off on a web server
    unless they were specifically needed in a particular
    directory, and then I would only turn them on for that directory.
    I would immagine that ireland.com have good reason to not allow such directory listings
    given what amp said above.


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    Samson
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    The suggestion from Mixie would actually do exactly what I want (thanks), but...
    When I actually browse the site using GetRight most of the folders (including the images folder) are not accessible, as I don't have authorisation.
    Therefore the only practical way of doing what I want is by using the suggestion by Static and doing a Google image search by keyword.

    I must reiterate that I have no intention of copyright infringement with regard to these images.


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    beaver
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    As amp says, be careful about nabbing stuff from ireland.com. Itronics (the company who maintain the site) are copyright consious people (I know a guy or two in there), and if you start yoinking stuff left right and centre, they won't be pleased in the least

    Assuming we're talking about news photographs and not original site artwork created by Itronics, I very much doubt they have anything to do with it. The copyrights to those photos will be owned by the photographers, the Times or other news agencies.


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