On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Igor Magazinik wrote:

> How can I retrieve file size prior to starting FTP download?

There's no easy way to do this.

You can set a DEBUGFUNCTION and intercept the commands and their responses
and thus attempt to figure it out.

Otherwise, you'll have to wait for the first write callback in the transfer,
as that will most likely include the file size (although not necessary).

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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