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>>Most folders published on the web do not allow browse access. If you have control over the site, just create an FTP site in the same folder.
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>The sites that we are working with allow us to retrieve a directory of the http: location. Can the FTP command to retrieve a directory be used against an HTTP site?
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No, FTP is a completely different service with it's own set of access rights to directories assigned to it.