On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:52 PM, dylan <glethro_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> It allows you to max out your bandwidth and pull in as much data as
> possible.

What's the downside?

> I never really thought it would work till i tried it with IDM
> (internet download manager) and had about a 300% speed increase. Then i
> moved over to linux a few years ago, lack of IDM has been killing ever
> since.
>>
>> Yes. Note that the content-length  (if available) can also be retrieved
>> via curl_easy_getinfo() using CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD, after a
>> successful call to curl_easy_perform().
>
> Does this mean that after a successful header only download I would be able
> to use  CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD?

Only if the server actually sends that header...

Olaf
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