Get Size of a File in the Internet

[mBe]

Hey guys

I already searched a little bit through the forum but couldnt find anything related to the question I got, if there's an existing thread about this already then please redirect me.

Since im coding my own download manager at the moment I'm in need of a little help. I'd like to display the filesize of every file I'm downloading, but don't really have a good idea how to get the filesize of any file in the internet.

I already had thoughts about reading out the header (few bytes) of the file itself and just read out the content.length but it just seems a little bit too much of work for a beginner. Thats why I'd like to ask if theres an easier already existing function that I could use.

Thanks for the help
Greetings mBe

 

[MattP]

Have a look here:

WebResponse.ContentLength Property (System.Net)

This should give you the file size in bytes:

		Dim webReq As Net.WebRequest = Net.WebRequest.Create("URL String")
		Dim webResp As Net.WebResponse = webReq.GetResponse()
		Dim length As Long = webResp.ContentLength()

 

[mBe]

Thanks a lot, worked like a charm