Get File Size Information Before You Download

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:03:15 +0530

Hello,

I was browsing ASP.NET resources and found an interesting code snippet for getting a file’s size over HTTP before the download actually starts.

So you can find out the size of a file before you download it. Here’s the simple code:

string completeUrl = "TypeYourDownloadableURL";

WebClient obj = new WebClient();
Stream s = obj.OpenRead(completeUrl);
Response.Write(obj.ResponseHeaders["Content-Length"].ToString());
s.Close();
obj = null;

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Get File Size Information Before You Download