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Roon
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9 years ago
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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 ...
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    Greg-DB
    9 years ago
    I don't believe there is a way to find out the size ahead of time unfortunately.
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
I don't believe there is a way to find out the size ahead of time unfortunately.
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sechel
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

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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