>> Is there any way to get the size of a file without downloading it? >> I want to write a program using LWP to download a file only >> if it is bigger than 3K but smaller than 500K. >> So I need to know the file size in the first place. > >Try making a HEAD request - that should return >file size and last modification date. This >obviously will not work for CGI URLs.
Something like:
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $result = $ua->head($url); my $remote_headers = $result->headers; $total_size = $remote_headers->content_length;
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