diff --git a/src/_h5ai/client/js/inc/ext/filter.js b/src/_h5ai/client/js/inc/ext/filter.js
index c714e02d..5014233b 100644
--- a/src/_h5ai/client/js/inc/ext/filter.js
+++ b/src/_h5ai/client/js/inc/ext/filter.js
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ modulejs.define('ext/filter', ['_', '$', 'core/settings', 'core/resource', 'core
 			return new RegExp(sequence, 'i');
 		},
 
+		reset = function () {
+
+			$input.val('').blur();
+		},
+
 		update = function (focus) {
 
 			var val = $input.val();
@@ -103,12 +108,12 @@ modulejs.define('ext/filter', ['_', '$', 'core/settings', 'core/resource', 'core
 				.on('keydown', function (event) {
 
 					if (event.which === 27) {
-						$input.val('').blur();
+						reset();
 					}
 				})
 				.on('keypress', updt);
 
-			event.sub('location.changed', updf);
+			event.sub('location.changed', reset);
 		};
 
 	init();
diff --git a/src/_h5ai/server/php/inc/class-api.php b/src/_h5ai/server/php/inc/class-api.php
index 3e6a41e2..445ccbd3 100644
--- a/src/_h5ai/server/php/inc/class-api.php
+++ b/src/_h5ai/server/php/inc/class-api.php
@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ class Api {
 			$response["items"] = $this->app->get_items($url, $what);
 		}
 
+		if (has_request_param("all_items")) {
+
+			use_request_param("all_items");
+			$response["all_items"] = $this->app->get_all_items();
+		}
+
 		if (count($_REQUEST)) {
 			$response["unused"] = $_REQUEST;
 		}
diff --git a/src/_h5ai/server/php/inc/class-app.php b/src/_h5ai/server/php/inc/class-app.php
index 3b5ee777..2af5744b 100644
--- a/src/_h5ai/server/php/inc/class-app.php
+++ b/src/_h5ai/server/php/inc/class-app.php
@@ -187,6 +187,34 @@ class App {
 	}
 
 
+	private function get_all_item_content($item, &$cache) {
+
+		foreach ($item->get_content($cache) as $child) {
+			if ($child->is_folder) {
+				$this->get_all_item_content($child, $cache);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+
+	public function get_all_items() {
+
+		$cache = array();
+		$root = Item::get($this, ROOT_PATH, $cache);
+
+		$this->get_all_item_content($root, $cache);
+
+		uasort($cache, array("Item", "cmp"));
+		$result = array();
+		foreach ($cache as $p => $item) {
+			$result[] = $item->to_json_object();
+		}
+
+		@file_put_contents(CACHE_PATH . "/item.json", json_encode($result));
+		return $result;
+	}
+
+
 	public function get_fallback() {
 
 		$cache = array();