Java URLConnection : how can I find out the size of a web file?

Question

I\'m working on a project for school, and I\'m implementing a tool which can be used to download files from the web ( with a throttling option ). The thing is, I\'m gonna ha

Answer 1

As @erickson said, sometimes there is header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked", instead of "Content-Length: " and of course you have null value for length.

About the available() method - nobody can guarantee to you that it will return proper value, so I recommend you to not use it.