Travis D Warlick Jr
7/9/2007 9:51:00 PM
John Joyce wrote:
>
> On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Taras Koval wrote:
>
>> Guest wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> so the subject implies what i want to do, get the file size before
>>> downloading. i've seen posts about downloading the header, so if
>>> possible, could someone give an example of this code???
>>>
>>> also, for files without a header, i tried using :content_length_proc
>>> within the open-uri class, but it would seem that the file is being
>>> downloaded, then tested for size (from the difference in time for
>>> running my code)
>>>
>>> so if someone has any ideas as to getting filesize of a file (mp3
>>> specifically) without a header... please help!
>>>
>>>
>> That is not possible!
>>
> If you can ask the system the file is stored on, you can get its file size.
It's not possible to ask for a file size/content-length over HTTP.
Maybe FTP, Telnet, SSH, etc, but that's assuming you have a login and
permissions to access the file.
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