[sword-devel] HTTP Transport support (was: Remote Module Repository Wiki)

[Jonathan Morgan]

Just recall that HEAD presumably takes another roundtrip to the server,
adding latency, while InstallSize just requires you to have the conf files
you have probably already got.  (In reality, it's probably not that much of
a problem, but I'm obviously feeling paranoid about latency today ;) ).

Jon

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Weston Ruter <westonruter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, do a HEAD request and then look at the Content-Length header.
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> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:11 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
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>> On Nov 6, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Nic Carter <niccarter at mac.com> wrote:
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>> > But, I believe there is a way of telling the size of a file being
>> retrieved via HTTP GET?  hopefully we could use that as well?  :)
>> IIRC, it's HEAD. JSword uses it. Works well.
>> In Him,
>> DM
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