[gdal-dev] Proper usage of gdal vsi list

[Scott]

But, the docs say:

gdal vsi list list files of GDAL Virtual File Systems (compressed, 
network hosted, etc...): /vsimem, /vsizip, /vsitar, /vsicurl, ....

...so this implies http dir listings via /vsicurl. I may be interpreting 
that incorrectly, though.

Scott

On 10/28/25 11:17, Laurențiu Nicola via gdal-dev wrote:
> I'd be quite surprised if GDAL's vsicurl was able to understand a directory index.
> 
> Take https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/apache/autoindex/, for example, it's clear that's a directory with 7 files, but it also has a bunch of column sorting links you'd want to ignore.
> 
> To be fair, there aren't that many directory index formats, but I'm not sure that parsing them is a job for GDAL.
> 
> Laurentiu
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2025, at 18:28, Scott via gdal-dev wrote:
>> Using list with /vsicurl only returns results if I specify a file. No
>> results when specifying a directory. /vsis3 works as expected. Am I
>> doing this correctly?
>>
>> Works:
>> gdal vsi list -lR
>> "/vsicurl/https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES18/ABI/MESO/M1/GEOCOLOR/2025292000425_GOES18-ABI-MESO-GEOCOLOR-39N-119W-1000x1000.jpg"
>>
>> No workee:
>> gdal vsi list -lR
>> "/vsicurl/https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES18/ABI/MESO/M1/GEOCOLOR/"
>>
>> /vsicurl_streaming only returns directory name:
>> gdal vsi list -lR
>> "/vsicurl_streaming/https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES18/ABI/MESO/M1/GEOCOLOR/"
>>
>> --depth has no effect.
>>
>> Debian 12/GDAL 3.12.0beta1
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Scott
>>
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