Size of a remote URL

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-08-30, Justin <justin__devine at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ok.  I believe you are correct.  I have observed the two MODES of the
> download dialog box.  HOWEVER there are still some instances in which
> Internet Explorer knows the size of something that my code cannot
> determine.  So now I have this conclusion:  The instances where I
> cannot get the size but a browser can must exist because I am not
> asking the server the right question.

I guess you should trace traffic on the connection and see how
IE is getting the length.  http://www.ethereal.com/

> Perhaps "Content-Length" is not included in the default
> headers, but the server will provide this header if it is
> asked too?

Not that I'm aware of.

BTW, what protocols are you talking about?  Just HTTP?

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