urllib.getsize()

[Skip Montanaro]

    Gerrit> I've written a function to get the size of a HTTP/FTP url, is it
    Gerrit> good enough to be put in urllib.py?

My only worry is that HEAD doesn't always work (for whatever reason having
to do more with servers than clients).  Would it be better to wrap things in
a try/except block?  Anyone have a URL that fails with HEAD?

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