InetGetSize

[Excalibur]

Didnt know if this was the correct place to stick this, but I figured it was the right group of people atlest. I was curious as to how the INetGetSize function worked, does it just use an HTTP protocol call to the server that asks for that files size? or does it request the file and actually download it? How does this work?

[jaenster]

If you use a network sniffer you can see any packets that wil sended / Recv.

Ethreal is some example.

Its now called wireshark. But here is the site: http://www.wireshark.org/

Edit : Oh btw, Its for almost any OS

Edited January 18, 2007 by jaenster

[Jos]

If you use a network sniffer you can see any packets that wil sended / Recv.

Ethreal is some example.

Its now called wireshark. But here is the site: http://www.wireshark.org/

Edit : Oh btw, Its for almost any OS

Point being ?

Manually add all the packet size together, after stripping header/footer and retransmit packages, to find out what the file size is when transfered ?

[MadBoy]

Point being ?

Manually add all the packet size together, after stripping header/footer and retransmit packages, to find out what the file size is when transfered ?

He is just saying that if realy wants to find out what how it's done on his own he can use network sniffer to check what is sent and how it's handled from the point of network. It's far from main question but i guess Larry already answered and it's just for him to google those up.

[Excalibur]

All I wanted to know is if it downloads the whole file to get the size or just askes the server what the file size is, because if it just downloads the whole file anyways, I would just save the file regardless.

[CoePSX]

The file size is returned by the server on the http header.

Content-Length : 23423

______________^

This is in bytes.

Close the connection after receiving the http header, so you don't download the file.

[Excalibur]

If it doesnt download the file, then how come when i test it on 10 Files of increasing size, it takes longer and longer to geat the file size as the files sizes increase?

[Valik]

This is stupid. Can't you test this yourself?

MsgBox(4096, "", InetGetSize("http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/6.06/ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386.iso")

Does that take you a long time to execute? No? Then obviously it doesn't download the entire file.