But the probleme is that I can't trust the server. I need to make sure that the client is robust so in case server is failing or not supporting the HTTP range request, client is still exiting after a certain quantity of bytes received...
2013/1/1, James Shaw <[email protected]>: > On 1 January 2013 19:32, Jean-Marc Spaggiari <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there a way to limit the respons size? >> >> Like, if I call http://my.domain.com/my/page and it's trying to return >> me a 5GB ISO file, I don't want to consume that. I want to abort the >> call as soon as it's over a certain amount of bytes. >> >> If I do response.getEntity() is it going to give the control back only >> when ALL the data will be retreived? >> > You could take a look at HTTP range requests, if you know that the > server will support it. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
