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Visual FoxPro Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Get Size of File on Web Server

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Demonstrates how to send a HEAD request to fetch information about a file on a web server, which hopefully includes the Content-Length in the response header.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL loResp
LOCAL lcContentLengthStr

lnSuccess = 0

*  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
*  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')

loResp = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpResponse')
lnSuccess = loHttp.HttpNoBody("HEAD","https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.16.1/node-v10.16.1-win-x64.zip",loResp)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loResp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Examine the response header.
? loResp.Header

*  Here is a sample response header:

*  Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 12:47:27 GMT
*  Content-Type: application/zip
*  Content-Length: 17457922
*  Connection: keep-alive
*  Set-Cookie: __cfduid=da5b78dcdd8171683c5a578eb9c9f88c81564663647; expires=Fri, 31-Jul-20 12:47:27 GMT; path=/; domain=.nodejs.org; HttpOnly
*  Last-Modified: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:21:57 GMT
*  ETag: "5d41dc45-10a6302"
*  Accept-Ranges: bytes
*  Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
*  Server: cloudflare
*  CF-RAY: 4ff7ebb32ac4e1e2-ORD

*  Get the Content-Length header.
lcContentLengthStr = loResp.GetHeaderField("Content-Length")
*  If the header exists...
IF (loResp.LastMethodSuccess = 1) THEN
    ? "Content-Length: " + lcContentLengthStr
    *  Your application can convert the contentLengthStr to an integer and then use it....
ENDIF

RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loResp