diff --git a/plugins/router_xmldir/router_xmldir.c b/plugins/router_xmldir/router_xmldir.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c76e8b98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/router_xmldir/router_xmldir.c
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+#include <uwsgi.h>
+
+#ifndef UWSGI_XML_LIBXML2
+#error you need a libxml2-enabled build of uWSGI to use the router_xmldir plugin
+#endif
+
+#include <libxml/tree.h>
+
+static int uwsgi_routing_func_xmldir(struct wsgi_request *wsgi_req, struct uwsgi_route *ur){
+
+        char **subject = (char **) (((char *)(wsgi_req))+ur->subject);
+        uint16_t *subject_len = (uint16_t *)  (((char *)(wsgi_req))+ur->subject_len);
+        struct uwsgi_buffer *ub = uwsgi_routing_translate(wsgi_req, ur, *subject, *subject_len, ur->data, ur->data_len);
+        if (!ub) return UWSGI_ROUTE_BREAK;
+
+	struct dirent **tasklist;
+        int n = scandir(ub->buf, &tasklist, 0, versionsort);
+	uwsgi_buffer_destroy(ub);
+        if (n < 0) return UWSGI_ROUTE_BREAK;
+        int i;
+	xmlDoc *rdoc = xmlNewDoc(BAD_CAST "1.0");
+        xmlNode *rtree = xmlNewNode(NULL, BAD_CAST "tree");
+        xmlDocSetRootElement(rdoc, rtree);
+
+        for(i=0;i<n;i++) {
+                if (tasklist[i]->d_name[0] == '.') goto next;
+		switch (tasklist[i]->d_type) {
+			case DT_DIR:
+				xmlNewTextChild(rtree, NULL, BAD_CAST "directory", BAD_CAST tasklist[i]->d_name);
+				break;
+			case DT_LNK:
+				xmlNewTextChild(rtree, NULL, BAD_CAST "link", BAD_CAST tasklist[i]->d_name);
+				break;
+			case DT_REG:
+				xmlNewTextChild(rtree, NULL, BAD_CAST "file", BAD_CAST tasklist[i]->d_name);
+				break;
+			default:
+				xmlNewTextChild(rtree, NULL, BAD_CAST "unknown", BAD_CAST tasklist[i]->d_name);
+                                break;
+		}
+next:
+		free(tasklist[i]);
+        }
+
+        free(tasklist);
+
+	xmlChar *xmlbuf;
+        int xlen = 0;
+        xmlDocDumpFormatMemory(rdoc, &xmlbuf, &xlen, 1);
+
+	uwsgi_response_prepare_headers(wsgi_req,"200 OK", 6);
+        uwsgi_response_write_body_do(wsgi_req, (char *) xmlbuf, xlen);
+
+        xmlFreeDoc(rdoc);
+        xmlFree(xmlbuf);
+
+	return UWSGI_ROUTE_BREAK;
+}
+
+
+static int uwsgi_router_xmldir(struct uwsgi_route *ur, char *args) {
+        ur->func = uwsgi_routing_func_xmldir;
+        ur->data = args;
+        ur->data_len = strlen(args);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void router_xmldir_register() {
+        uwsgi_register_router("xmldir", uwsgi_router_xmldir);
+}
+
+struct uwsgi_plugin router_xmldir_plugin = {
+	.name = "router_xmldir",
+	.on_load = router_xmldir_register,
+};
diff --git a/plugins/router_xmldir/uwsgiplugin.py b/plugins/router_xmldir/uwsgiplugin.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..04635c85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/router_xmldir/uwsgiplugin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+NAME='router_xmldir'
+CFLAGS = []
+LDFLAGS = []
+LIBS = []
+GCC_LIST = ['router_xmldir']