rclone/docs/content/http.md

title	description	date
HTTP Remote	Read only remote for HTTP servers	2017-06-19

HTTP

The HTTP remote is a read only remote for reading files of a webserver. The webserver should provide file listings which rclone will read and turn into a remote. This has been tested with common webservers such as Apache/Nginx/Caddy and will likely work with file listings from most web servers. (If it doesn't then please file an issue, or send a pull request!)

Paths are specified as remote: or remote:path/to/dir.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / http Connection
   \ "http"
[snip]
Storage> http
URL of http host to connect to
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to example.com
   \ "https://example.com"
url> https://beta.rclone.org
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
url = https://beta.rclone.org
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               http

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q

This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

See all the top level directories

rclone lsd remote:

List the contents of a directory

rclone ls remote:directory

Sync the remote directory to /home/local/directory, deleting any excess files.

rclone sync remote:directory /home/local/directory

Read only

This remote is read only - you can't upload files to an HTTP server.

Modified time

Most HTTP servers store time accurate to 1 second.

Checksum

No checksums are stored.

Usage without a config file

Since the http remote only has one config parameter it is easy to use without a config file:

rclone lsd --http-url https://beta.rclone.org :http:

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to http (http Connection).

--http-url

URL of http host to connect to

• Config: url
• Env Var: RCLONE_HTTP_URL
• Type: string
• Default: ""
• Examples:
  • "https://example.com"
    • Connect to example.com
  • "https://user:pass@example.com"
    • Connect to example.com using a username and password

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to http (http Connection).

--http-headers

Set HTTP headers for all transactions

Use this to set additional HTTP headers for all transactions

The input format is comma separated list of key,value pairs. Standard CSV encoding may be used.

For example to set a Cookie use 'Cookie,name=value', or '"Cookie","name=value"'.

You can set multiple headers, eg '"Cookie","name=value","Authorization","xxx"'.

• Config: headers
• Env Var: RCLONE_HTTP_HEADERS
• Type: CommaSepList
• Default:

--http-no-slash

Set this if the site doesn't end directories with /

Use this if your target website does not use / on the end of directories.

A / on the end of a path is how rclone normally tells the difference between files and directories. If this flag is set, then rclone will treat all files with Content-Type: text/html as directories and read URLs from them rather than downloading them.

Note that this may cause rclone to confuse genuine HTML files with directories.

• Config: no_slash
• Env Var: RCLONE_HTTP_NO_SLASH
• Type: bool
• Default: false

--http-no-head

Don't use HEAD requests to find file sizes in dir listing

If your site is being very slow to load then you can try this option. Normally rclone does a HEAD request for each potential file in a directory listing to:

• find its size
• check it really exists
• check to see if it is a directory

If you set this option, rclone will not do the HEAD request. This will mean

• directory listings are much quicker

• rclone won't have the times or sizes of any files

• some files that don't exist may be in the listing

• Config: no_head

• Env Var: RCLONE_HTTP_NO_HEAD

• Type: bool

• Default: false