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  • wouldn't the path portion of an HTTP URL be considered as corresponding to a directory structure under the root? also, many web servers offer a file listing if you request a URL ending with a directory, not a file. and then both of these two concepts could be translated into this model of mounting an HTTP server as a file system. now, as far as posting changes to such a mount, I am not sure about that but perhaps some web servers could be configured to do it much like FTP Commented Mar 11, 2013 at 21:37
  • @amphibient, yes, what you call a file listing is what I call a generated HTML page with links to file. It still needs to be parsed and there's no standard on the format of those pages. On Apache alone there are several modules generating those indexes which can be tuned in many different ways. So there's no foolproof solution. As I said see lftp that tries to parse many of those listing pages. Commented Mar 11, 2013 at 21:44