Hello:

Is it possible to request the size of a file given a URL?

I would like to ignore files less than a user-specified value, but I
don't think I should have to download it first, just to find out. Any
help?

Thanks,
Travis

Well, the response *may* give you a content-length header, but it may
simply stream, in which case you cannot tell.

You can try the HEAD verb. It only retrieves the headers, which may include
the content-length. Here's some detail:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...ead-reque.aspx

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"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> Hello:
>
> Is it possible to request the size of a file given a URL?
>
> I would like to ignore files less than a user-specified value, but I
> don't think I should have to download it first, just to find out. Any
> help?
>
> Thanks,
> Travis
>

On Nov 24, 4:15 pm, Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]
<pbromb...@yahoo.NoSpamMaam.com> wrote:
> You can try the HEAD verb. It only retrieves the headers, which may include
> the content-length. Here's some detail:http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...1c-4dd8-9129-f...
>
> --Peter
> "Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out."http://www.eggheadcafe.comhttp://petesbloggerama.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogmetafinder.com
>
>
>
> "jehugalea...@gmail.com" wrote:
> > Hello:
>
> > Is it possible to request the size of a file given a URL?
>
> > I would like to ignore files less than a user-specified value, but I
> > don't think I should have to download it first, just to find out. Any
> > help?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Travis- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Oh wow, that cuts some time down (some of the time). Thanks a lot!