The containerViews directive lets us associate some standard forms for containers with an interface. There's an "index.html" view that provides a listing of the contained objects without provinding any way to manage them (though it allows us to visit them by clicking on links). We can get this view from the root folder easily:: >>> response = http(r""" ... GET / HTTP/1.1 ... """) And we can check that there isn't a form (where the management operations would have buttons):: >>> body = response.getBody().lower() >>> "