From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T11:52:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Newby Question: Check image size before getting with Net::Http

Hi,

2008/5/30 Ruchira Bomiriya <ruchira.bomiriya@gmail.com>:
> Dear Expert,
>
> I want to check the file size of a URI to identify large files (I will
> decide on threshold) without having to get the whole file first.
>
> Can I get just the file size using something related to Net::Http
> (don't know if Propfind would help and if it does how).
>

 require 'net/http'

 response = nil
 Net::HTTP.start('www.biostat.wisc.edu', 80) {|http|
   response = http.head('/bcg/categories/languages/ruby/ruby_logo.png')
 }
 p response['content-length']



Regards,

Park Heesob