How can I open a folder on server by clicking on a link

Question

I have some docs which are located on a shared folder on the server. I need to open up this folder to show these docs by clicking on a link. I tried using <a href="..."> but that didn't work. I don't want to point to any specific file on the folder. If it's the case then it works, but what I want to do is to just open this shared folder by clicking on a link specifying the path.

The technologies which I can use are html, jsp, javascript, jquery.

Please advise how to do this.

Answer 1

Use the Java API to get the files of the folder and display each file as a link on the page.

 File directory = new File("path of shared directory");
 File[] files = directory.listFiles();

Display the files on the page as link, so this will be same as you do currently but it will get all the files in that directory.