That's great info to know. But I more specifically wanted to get the
runtime of the file (i.e. in hours, minutes, seconds). Any way to do
that?
On Nov 26, 2:37 am, Niklas Rosencrantz <teknik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:14 AM, MajorProgamming <sefira...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to somehow fetch an external MP3 file (i.e. from
> > another website), and then calculate the length of the MP3 file.
>
> > I don't need the actual data of the file, I just want the length of it
> > (time it runs).
>
> > Keep in mind that these files can be as big as 25MB...
>
> > Thanks,
>
> Hello,
> Good question guaranteed to depend on host config (could be custom or
> fake descriptions) while one mentioned way is use HTTP HEAD
> #Call HTTP HEAD in Python
> import httplib
> conn=httplib.HTTPConnection("www.abc.com")
> conn.request("HEAD", "/dir/file1.mp3")
> res=conn.getresponse()
> fileSize=res.getheader('content-length')
> #or res.getheaders() for all headers
> conn.close()
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