Forgot to mention: You can also issue a HEAD request against the file. Head requests return only the headers so you won't get the file contents, but you will get a *Content-Length* header with the size of the file. Then you can issue a standard GET request to actually download the file.
----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Vinny P <vinny...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Tapir <tapir....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My Flash app will load a static file (about 300k) in my app engine app. >> But for past several months, the progress always is shown as 0%. >> The reason for the problem is event.bytesTotal is always 0 now (but GAE >> returns the actual file size several months before). >> > > > Can you go into Chrome's Developer Tools and screenshot the response > headers? It should look like this: http://imgur.com/xntN07g > > In particular, do you see any headers marked *Transfer-Encoding* or any > *3xx* status codes? If you do see a *Transfer-Encoding: Chunked* header, > that's why. Chunked transfers don't send a content length (read more here > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding>) so you'll need > to figure out an alternate way to calculate the progress bar or send the > content length via another method. > > > ----------------- > -Vinny P > Technology & Media Advisor > Chicago, IL > > App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
