diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 170d2f56..ba7d5195 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ you can also zip a selection of files or folders by clicking them in the browser
 
 cool trick: download a folder by appending url-params `?tar&opus` or `?tar&mp3` to transcode all audio files (except aac|m4a|mp3|ogg|opus|wma) to opus/mp3 before they're added to the archive
 * super useful if you're 5 minutes away from takeoff and realize you don't have any music on your phone but your server only has flac files and downloading those will burn through all your data + there wouldn't be enough time anyways
+* and url-param `&nodot` skips dotfiles/dotfolders; they are included by default if your account has permission to see them
 * and url-params `&j` / `&w` produce jpeg/webm thumbnails/spectrograms instead of the original audio/video/images (`&p` for audio waveforms)
   * can also be used to pregenerate thumbnails; combine with `--th-maxage=9999999` or `--th-clean=0`
 
diff --git a/copyparty/authsrv.py b/copyparty/authsrv.py
index 06507344..ccbe5fd5 100644
--- a/copyparty/authsrv.py
+++ b/copyparty/authsrv.py
@@ -896,6 +896,7 @@ class VFS(object):
         flt: set[str],
         uname: str,
         dirs: bool,
+        dots: int,
         scandir: bool,
         wrap: bool = True,
     ) -> Generator[dict[str, Any], None, None]:
@@ -904,7 +905,7 @@ class VFS(object):
         # if single folder: the folder itself is the top-level item
         folder = "" if flt or not wrap else (vpath.split("/")[-1].lstrip(".") or "top")
 
-        g = self.walk(folder, vrem, [], uname, [[True, False]], 1, scandir, False)
+        g = self.walk(folder, vrem, [], uname, [[True, False]], dots, scandir, False)
         for _, _, vpath, apath, files, rd, vd in g:
             if flt:
                 files = [x for x in files if x[0] in flt]
diff --git a/copyparty/httpcli.py b/copyparty/httpcli.py
index 9fa05b0a..db18bb1f 100644
--- a/copyparty/httpcli.py
+++ b/copyparty/httpcli.py
@@ -1779,6 +1779,7 @@ class HttpCli(object):
                 set(),
                 self.uname,
                 True,
+                1,
                 not self.args.no_scandir,
                 wrap=False,
             )
@@ -5014,6 +5015,9 @@ class HttpCli(object):
             packer = StreamZip
             ext = "zip"
 
+        dots = 0 if "nodot" in self.uparam else 1
+        scandir = not self.args.no_scandir
+
         fn = self.vpath.split("/")[-1] or self.host.split(":")[0]
         if items:
             fn = "sel-" + fn
@@ -5025,9 +5029,7 @@ class HttpCli(object):
             maxn = vn.flags.get("zipmaxn_v") or 0
             nf = 0
             nb = 0
-            fgen = vn.zipgen(
-                vpath, rem, set(items), self.uname, False, not self.args.no_scandir
-            )
+            fgen = vn.zipgen(vpath, rem, set(items), self.uname, False, dots, scandir)
             t = "total size exceeds a limit specified in server config"
             t = vn.flags.get("zipmaxt") or t
             if maxs and maxn:
@@ -5051,9 +5053,7 @@ class HttpCli(object):
         self.log(repr(cdis))
         self.send_headers(None, mime=mime, headers={"Content-Disposition": cdis})
 
-        fgen = vn.zipgen(
-            vpath, rem, set(items), self.uname, False, not self.args.no_scandir
-        )
+        fgen = vn.zipgen(vpath, rem, set(items), self.uname, False, dots, scandir)
         # for f in fgen: print(repr({k: f[k] for k in ["vp", "ap"]}))
         cfmt = ""
         if self.thumbcli and not self.args.no_bacode: