remote directorylisting

Does anybody know how to list a remote directory to get all the filenames into for example an array? This is easily done on your local server by: $handle=opendir('./images/'); while (($file = readdir($handle))!==false) { $filelist[] = $file; } closedir($handle); However, opendir and readdir does not work on remote servers: $handle=opendir('http://www.somesite.net/images/'); So, does anybody know how to do this. I know I can read remote files (directory listing) and then To analyse this for filenames with a lot of string manipulation operations. Is there a simpler approach? Håkon Grønning E-mail: hakon.gronning@iet.hist.no