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Share Link Redirect URL has no Content-Length
I'm trying to get the filesize from a shared link: Looking at the answer to [this post] - the shared link creates a redirect to the file, which should provide a filesize in the headers.. It ...
- I don't believe there is a way to find out the size ahead of time unfortunately.
Content-Length is not required, Your shared link is a folder then Dropbox is probably dynamically zipping it, that is probably the reason why it have not a length
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorThat's correct, my sample was a link for a file, so it can offer a Content-Length. Your example is a link for a folder, which is compressed on the fly, so the Content-Length isn't available.
- Thanks..
So I take that to mean that the compression is incomplete when the headers are sent.. and consequently there is no known size..
Leading me to the question, how am i supposed to know the compressed file-size of a folder prior to downloading it? (I need to indicate progress as a percentage)- Greg-DBI don't believe there is a way to find out the size ahead of time unfortunately.
Hey there,
there is an easy solution to this question: Do a HEAD request with a Range:bytes=0- header. Then you will have a Content-Length header in the response 😀 Hope that helps, greetings
Stefan
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