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>> In oppening a connect to a url, why is it that sometimes getContentLength will
>> return -1 instead of the desired size of the URL? I'm accessing html and trying
>> to implement a status bar to show the progress of the downloaded url. However,
>> not knowing the target size makes it a bit difficult to calculate the progress.
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>URLConnection.getContentLength() will return -1 if the document's
>header contains no Content-Length header field. You can get this
>if the server does not know the document's length (either because
>the server is stupid or because this is a document generated in
>realtime, for example).
>
Hi Martin,
I appreciate that post, it probably explains the "wierd" data that I've been
getting back from some servers. In testing on my own webpage (no content-length
header field), it will return the correct byte count, smart server I guess.
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