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 ;) ).<br>
<br>Jon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Weston Ruter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:westonruter@gmail.com">westonruter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Yes, do a HEAD request and then look at the Content-Length header.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:11 PM, DM Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmsmith@crosswire.org" target="_blank">dmsmith@crosswire.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Nov 6, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Nic Carter <<a href="mailto:niccarter@mac.com" target="_blank">niccarter@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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? :)<br>
</div>IIRC, it's HEAD. JSword uses it. Works well.<br>
In Him,<br>
DM<br>
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