On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Gurpreet Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way in urllib to check file size (from the webserver) before > downloading it? Or any other python module from this?
If you are on *nix, you can use curl -I to make a HEAD request, which contains Content-Length header. $ curl -I http://www.google.com/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: image/x-icon Last-Modified: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:35:34 GMT Expires: Sun, 17 Jan 2038 19:14:07 GMT Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 11:45:57 GMT Server: gws Content-Length: 1406 Age: 7 _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
