Using dir with a url

Hello all, I am trying to list the contents in a folder using a url. I would like to see all the files in a specified url directory. See below for an example file:

url='http://test.opendap.org/dap/data/nc/'; dir(url)

I keep getting an error for no matches. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

dir() does not respect url, and considers them just to be paths to hand to the file system.

[J Travis Hunsucker]

Thank you for the response. Do you know of another way to query the contents of a url directory?

[Walter Roberson]

urlread and parse the results, or possibly use something from text analytics toolbox.