rodmc wrote: > On 13 Oct, 00:10, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Oct 12, 9:34 am, rodmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > Is there a way to get the size of a file on a remote machine before it >> > is uploaded? I would like to write some form of status counter which >> > is updated as a fie is uploaded, and also to use this feature to >> > prevent files which are too big from being uploaded. >> >> > Best, >> >> > rod >> >> Looks like ftplib does that. Check the >> docs:http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-ftplib.html >> >> Mike > > Hi Mike, > > Thanks for this information I will look at it. The only condition is > that everything must run via a webpage.
Which is crucial information and rules out Mike's suggestion. And the answer is: no, you can't access file-attributes on remote machines. HTTP does require a content-length header though. If that exceeds a certain size, you can terminate the connection. You need to do that also if the client actually pushes more data than announced. And progress-counting can be done by counting the already arrived data & making e.g. an Ajax-Call to fetch that from the server. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
