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Reading HTML (web) page through socket [message #59817]

Wed, 09 April 2008 12:11

rhyme2ri2
Messages: 11
Registered: February 2008

Junior Member

Hello all,

I want to read an html(web) page. I am able to do this using socket
but the problem is that i don't know the size of the page. Is there
any possible way to know the size of page before reading it using
sockets. The size is needed as i need to allocate buffer on the basis
of this size.

Or, if there is a better way to read an html(web) page in idl then
please let me know.

Thanks & Regards
-Ritu

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Re: Reading HTML (web) page through socket [message #59830 is a reply to message #59817]

Fri, 18 April 2008 06:31

JeremyFaden
Messages: 8
Registered: March 2005

Junior Member

Can you do a HEAD request, then look for content-length in the
response?
Jeremy

Jeremy Faden

On Apr 9, 2:11 pm, rhyme2ri2 <rhyme2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I want to read an html(web) page. I am able to do this usingsocket
> but the problem is that i don't know the size of the page. Is there
> any possible way to know the size of page before reading it using
> sockets. The size is needed as i need to allocate buffer on the basis
> of this size.
>
> Or, if there is a better way to read an html(web) page in idl then
> please let me know.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> -Ritu

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