On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:20:58PM +0300, evgeny tsurkin wrote: > > Hi! > The problem I have: > I am fetchng big files from the web that are created on the fly. > Befor actually fetching them I would like to know what is the size > it is going to be. > I am not sure that is possible ,but if it is - please be very clear > i am new in using lwp. > Thanks.
Use your HEAD. (It comes with LWP!) The 'head' method only fetches the document headers; one of them gives the document size. -- Reinier
