Just recall that HEAD presumably takes another roundtrip to the server, adding latency, while InstallSize just requires you to have the conf files you have probably already got. (In reality, it's probably not that much of a problem, but I'm obviously feeling paranoid about latency today ;) ).
Jon On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Weston Ruter <westonru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, do a HEAD request and then look at the Content-Length header. > > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:11 PM, DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote: > >> >> >> On Nov 6, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Nic Carter <niccar...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> > But, I believe there is a way of telling the size of a file being >> retrieved via HTTP GET? hopefully we could use that as well? :) >> IIRC, it's HEAD. JSword uses it. Works well. >> In Him, >> DM >> >> From my phone. >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > > > -- > Weston Ruter > http://weston.ruter.net/ > @westonruter <http://twitter.com/westonruter> - Google > Profile<http://www.google.com/profiles/WestonRuter#about> > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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