Hi, I've searched the forum:
http://old.nabble.com/Opening-streaming-URL-td11290919.html#a11344350 http://old.nabble.com/Opening-streaming-URL-td11290919.html#a11344350 based on the above, I still don't understand fully that: entity.getContent() will start downloading the content/body since httpclient-3.x above or as soon as I call httpclient.execute(..) it will download the whole response including the body. I'm using Httpclient-4.0.1, and what I have so far is I do a HEAD call, and check content length if its not too large, then proceed a GET call, and do something with the body from entity.getContent() which is very expensive. Could anyone please explain and point out to a better solution as I want to avoid an extra call (i.e. say just do GET call)? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-to-prevent-HttpClient-from-downloading-large-files--tp30352097p30352097.html Sent from the HttpClient-User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
