How do I get the file size from http://www.abc.com/file.txt?

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How do I get the file size from

http://www.abc.com/file.txt?

 

[goBoating]

This works sometimes. Not all servers deliver the doc length as part of their header. Maybe, the servers you are dealing with will.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
$url = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.someserver.com';[/URL]
($content_type,$doc_length,$modified,$expires,$server) = head($url);
print "For $url, doc length is $doc_length.\n";

An alternative might be to retreive the page and look at it..... this takes a little longer, but, may do the trick.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
$url = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.someserver.com';[/URL]
getstore($url,"junk.html");

$size = (stat('junk.html'))[7];
print "size - $size\n";
unlink './junk.html';

HTH





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[Guest_imported]

I just wanted to say thanks. This was a lot of help.
right on

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