On 4 March 2010 17:02, Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Justin Skists wrote:
> > On 4 March 2010 16:31, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
> >> That's not a good idea.
>
> > No, it's not. I regretted mentioning it as soon as I hit send. :)
>
>
> The Content-Length header is really the only way to get an idea of
> the file's size in advance, whether you use HEAD or GET.
>

Sadly, you don't get a Content-Length header for chunk encoded responses.

Justin.

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