PTM: When I make a directory listing to a web page, there is this
'Description' column. So far I have not found a way to use it. The
documentation, I have not found, doesn't give any information about it.
The thing is that I have never seen a page, where this 'Description' is
in use. So, it might be that nobody else has understood anything about
the documentation they have found.

Is there somewhere good examples or about this.

Here is one example:
http://ptm2.cc.utu.fi/ftp/network/cards/Homeline/

If I look in the source of this page, I see lines generated by Apache.
In my little head I have an idea, that it could read the information for
'Descrition' from some kind of indexed table I could write myself.


----------------------SOURCE------------------------------
<PRE><IMG SRC="/icons/blank.gif" ALT=" "> <A HREF="?N=D">Name</A>
<A HREF="?M=A">Last modified</A> <A
HREF="?S=A">Size</A> <A HREF="?D=A">Description</A>
<HR>
<IMG SRC="/icons/back.gif" ALT="[DIR]"> <A
HREF="/ftp/network/cards/">Parent Directory</A> 10-Jan-2007 12:30
-
<IMG SRC="/icons/compressed.gif" ALT="[ ]"> <A
HREF="HLW-PCC200_03d0604.zip">HLW-PCC200_03d0604.zip</A> 22-Sep-2005
19:04 3.2M
</PRE><HR>
-----------------------SOURCE-------------------------------

On 2007-02-14, PTM <ptmusta@utu.fi> wrote:
> PTM: When I make a directory listing to a web page, there is this
> 'Description' column. So far I have not found a way to use it. The
> documentation, I have not found, doesn't give any information about it.

You mean you didn't found the 'AddDescription' directive in the
documentation? Is right there.

Davide

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On 14/02/2007 08:56, Davide Bianchi dixit:
> On 2007-02-14, PTM <ptmusta@utu.fi> wrote:
>> PTM: When I make a directory listing to a web page, there is this
>> 'Description' column. So far I have not found a way to use it. The
>> documentation, I have not found, doesn't give any information about it.

> You mean you didn't found the 'AddDescription' directive in the
> documentation? Is right there.

Beyond AddDescription there is also another way to use the description
field.
When I was still stuck to a modem I stored useful web pages in the
/var/www/htdocs/docs directory, to consult them offline.
Of course to have long lists of file names (often with /odd/ names) made
document retrieval a PITA.
So I made this configuration, to have the HTML titles in the description
field and the folders at the top of the list.
The IndexIgnore *_files directive is to get rid of the
"samepagename_files" folders containing images etc. created by Firefox.


<Directory "/var/www/htdocs/docs">
IndexOptions +FoldersFirst +ScanHTMLTitles +DescriptionWidth=*
-IgnoreCase
IndexIgnore *_files
</Directory>


This configuration applies to every htdocs/docs subdirectory, too.
The resulting page is something like:

[DIR] GiordanoBruno/
04-Oct-2005 02:29 -
[DIR] KANT/
18-Nov-2005 23:03 -
[DIR] TURING/
18-Nov-2005 23:03 -
[TXT] 65repressivetolerance.htm 27-Jun-2005 20:11 75k Repressive
Tolerance, by Herbert Marcuse (1965)
[TXT] 67EndUtopiaProbViol.htm 27-Jun-2005 20:12 130k Herbert
Marcuse, Das Ende der Utopie (1967)
[TXT] 67LibFromAfflSociety.htm 27-Jun-2005 20:11 40k Introduction
David Cooper 7 The Obvious R
[IMG] BkOneDimDtBig400pxh.jpg 27-Jun-2005 20:05 40k
[TXT] TheEinstein-Podolsky-RosenArgumentInQuantumTheory.html
11-Jun-2005 18:18 67k The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument in
Quantum Theory
[TXT] atheist_agnostic.html 12-Jun-2005 00:30 8k Bertrand
Russell: Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
[TXT] eras.moriae.html
26-Jul-2005 23:26 179k Eramus: The Praise of Folly

Of course you must rely on the quality of the web pages titles: I have a
special voodoo doll deserved to "untitled page" authors.

HTH

Cyrus (the /bookworm/ virus)

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