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() -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.