[Bug-wget] really no "wget --list http://..." ?

[Denis]

Micah,
  not to be dense, but is there really no way to "wget --list http://...";
a directory without downloading all its files ?
To browse any file system, local or remote, I want to be able to LIST it first.
I gather that there's no www variant of a Unix-like file system
(tree structure independent of file contents => very fast ls -R)
but a WFS, web file system, would sure simplify life

thanks, cheers
  -- denis