On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:14 AM, MajorProgamming <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there any way to somehow fetch an external MP3 file (i.e. from > another website), and then calculate the length of the MP3 file. > > I don't need the actual data of the file, I just want the length of it > (time it runs). > > Keep in mind that these files can be as big as 25MB... > > Thanks, > Hello, Good question guaranteed to depend on host config (could be custom or fake descriptions) while one mentioned way is use HTTP HEAD #Call HTTP HEAD in Python import httplib conn=httplib.HTTPConnection("www.abc.com") conn.request("HEAD", "/dir/file1.mp3") res=conn.getresponse() fileSize=res.getheader('content-length') #or res.getheaders() for all headers conn.close()
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