On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 05:48:46PM -0400, Eric Fortin wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Sandeep Sastry <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Though there are some existing discussion related to the topic > > "Content-Length Vs Chunked Transfer Encoding" on various non-curl sites, I > > wanted to understand how it works with libcurl. > > I am using curl in my client application and as part of the application, I > > show progress bar for upload and download activity. The old server used to > > send Content-Length header in the response to GET requests, consistently. > > But now the new server, does not send Content-Length, but sends Chunked > > Transfer Encoding. This is breaking my progress functionality as I always > > get "0" for total download size. > > Is there a way for me to still get the progress bar going, though the > > server does not send Content-Length? Because when contacted the server > > guys, they told me they would no more be using Content-Length. > > You might be able to do a HEAD request to get the file size and then infer > the progress based on the data you received while receiving the GET response.
If a GET response doesn't include a Content-Length, it's extremely unlikely that a HEAD request would. Usually, a chunked response is used when the complete length simply isn't known ahead of time. >>> Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
