Install HTTPDirFS on CachyOS

What should I do after installing HTTPDirFS?

1. Run httpdirfs in a terminal.
2. Run pacman -Qi httpdirfs to see the installed version and the optional dependencies.

How do I update or remove HTTPDirFS?

Update:

Remove:

What is HTTPDirFS?

HTTPDirFS is a filesystem that allows you to mount arbitrary websites using the FUSE framework. It comes with a cache system, and Airsonic / Subsonic server support.

Package description: A filesystem which allows you to mount HTTP directory listings

Reviews of HTTPDirFS on CachyOS

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fangfufu/httpdirfs · ★ 970 stars · last commit Oct 28, 2026 · latest release Jun 11, 2026

Real issues opened by users on the project's GitHub, shown as written with a link to each one. 10 most reacted issues opened in the last two years plus the 5 newest issues, bots, pull requests, non English and political posts skipped, capped at 15 per repo. Fetched Nov 1, 2026.

1. Duplicates in the mounted dir are still possibleClosed

   There was issue #59 when icons in apache listing produced duplicated items in the mounted dir. It was resolved by checking, if two consequent urls are the same in But there could be other occasions for the same file being mentioned more than once in http listings. For example, in…

   @slowpeek · Dec 14, 2024 · 1 comments · View on GitHub

2. Directories with _ and [ prefixes are not displayedClosed

   I have a few directories that start with and [ and they do not get seen. Every other directory and file does show.

   @Tatsh · May 24, 2025 · 3 comments · View on GitHub

3. linknames_equal truncating while performing comparisonClosed

   Root cause: these files are not mounted: Original issue text: version: httpdirfs 1.2.7 examples: with python -m http.server in the directory listing, these files show up like workaround: mount dot-hidden files directly

   @milahu · Sep 7, 2025 · 13 comments · View on GitHub

4. fails to mount git repo over httpClosed

   @milahu · Sep 7, 2025 · 8 comments · View on GitHub

5. zero length files are not mountedClosed

   version f00e7733510ea08f28eff439158cc55a4b12be26 treats zero length files as "invalid links" im running a patched nginx server where all files and directories are listed as files with zero size this is an optimization to avoid stat calls on every file see also Nginx autoindex is…

   @milahu · Sep 10, 2025 · 3 comments · View on GitHub

6. directory listings: dont send HEAD requests for every fileClosed

   version f00e7733510ea08f28eff439158cc55a4b12be26 sends HEAD requests for every file when the file type and size were not parsed from the directory listings html im running a patched nginx server where all files and directories are listed as files with zero size this is an…

   @milahu · Sep 10, 2025 · 1 comments · View on GitHub

7. HTTP range requests check fails for nginx.Closed

   git ls-remote mnt does that work for you? when i run then it throws This web server does not support HTTP range requests quickfix: httpdirfs --no-range-check this error makes sense for python -m http.server because it really does not support HTTP range requests but this error…

   @fangfufu · Sep 10, 2025 · 1 comments · View on GitHub

8. Replace gumbo-parser with myhtmlClosed

   We should replace with because Google had deprecated the Gumbo parser. Having said that, we need to package myhtml for Debian. I have already created an ITP for that:

   @fangfufu · Aug 11, 2025 · 4 comments · View on GitHub

9. Add an option to deal with broken encoding of entitiesClosed

   There is a version of lighttpd (I think) that does not correctly encode %20 (literal in the directory name) to %2520. To fix this you have to fix something like a%20space to a%2520space. Currently httpdirfs would just show a space in the listing and this will not work. A…

   @Tatsh · May 24, 2025 · 6 comments · View on GitHub

10. Cache_free: could not destroy w_lock!Closed

    Hello, This error occurs quite randomly, often after a few minutes of use when I open a new file. After that the process just crash and i have to relaunch.

    @trixprod · Nov 21, 2024 · 29 comments · View on GitHub

11. Sera Finding #4Closed

    Component: httpdirfs (FUSE HTTP-dir FS) commit 86ab2a3 (2026-10-06) File: src/linkparser.c function collectgumbotext() lines 193-198 Weakness: CWE-787 (out-of-bounds write) — heap overflow Reachable: REMOTE — any web server whose directory-listing HTML contains an anchor ( text )…

    @jaii2p · Oct 8, 2026 · 0 comments · View on GitHub

12. Exposing the resource file when mounting with --html-is-directoryClosed

    Right now when you mount with --html-is-directory, none of the images under the <img src... tag is shown. We should fix that. We should include other data source type too.

    @fangfufu · Oct 6, 2026 · 1 comments · View on GitHub

13. Support Fuse 2Closed

    It will be nice to support both Fuse 2 and 3. From it looks like having a fallback for Fuse 2 is not problematic.

    @barracuda156 · Oct 1, 2026 · 3 comments · View on GitHub

14. use server-side cache of filesystem metadataClosed

    reduce number of HTTP requests avoid HTTP requests for the discovery of file names, types, sizes use HTTP requests only to fetch file contents some standard methods for a server-side filesystem metadata cache are sitemap.xml problem: XML is verbose problem: no file sizes (in the…

    @milahu · Aug 4, 2026 · 1 comments · View on GitHub

15. Future cache system improvementsOpen

    There had been quite a few comments about restricting the use of the cache system: I guess this should be a part of a wider discussion of cache defaults: By default cache is disabled (good) but I don't think that allowing httpdirfs to allocate up to 8TB by default of disk space…

    @fangfufu · May 27, 2026 · 1 comments · View on GitHub