Samba and web pages

[Robert Krawitz]

   Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:21:37 -0500
   From: "John Abreau" <abreauj at gmail.com>

   This isn't handled in the browser at all. Apache has a
   user-overridable function for listing a directory, and its default
   function for listing a directory happens to look for a sequence of
   files such as index.html, and if it finds one of these, it returns
   it; otherwise it generates a directory listing.

   In the absence of apache, or other http-server software that
   implements the same behavior, you simply won't get this behavior.

A browser could certainly emulate the behavior when browsing a local
directory.

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