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get file size before downloading via http
In the previous question I was shown how to specify the byte range in an http request (using HTTP::Request and LWP::UserAgent). This allows one to download a specific chunk of a while (e.g., bytes 10000 to 20000).
What I forgot to include in that question is: Can I get the size of the file before specifying the bytes range. Since I will always be retrieving the last x bytes in the file, I would like to get the total size so that I can calculate the range so that the request range is, in effect, total_size minus x to total_size.
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What I forgot to include in that question is: Can I get the size of the file before specifying the bytes range. Since I will always be retrieving the last x bytes in the file, I would like to get the total size so that I can calculate the range so that the request range is, in effect, total_size minus x to total_size.
thanks
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I don't think this will work for my purposes. There is a very large file and I need to see the size of it before I request it. I believe that by the time you see the content length in the response, you've already gotten the file.
Negative. Look carefully at the HTTP::Request->new() call. We're specifying HEAD, not GET or POST. That gets -only- the headers, nothing else.
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Sorry - missed the HEAD obviously.
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