Ajax - Get size of file before downloading
Sometimes HEAD can act differently than GET so I suggest something like this that aborts the request after getting Content-Length
header:
new Promise(resolve => {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', '/a.bin', true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = () => {
resolve(+xhr.getResponseHeader("Content-Length"));
xhr.abort();
};
xhr.send();
}).then(console.log);
You can get XHR response header data manually:
http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#the-getresponseheader()-method
This function will get the filesize of the requested URL:
function get_filesize(url, callback) {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("HEAD", url, true); // Notice "HEAD" instead of "GET",
// to get only the header
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == this.DONE) {
callback(parseInt(xhr.getResponseHeader("Content-Length")));
}
};
xhr.send();
}
get_filesize("http://example.com/foo.exe", function(size) {
alert("The size of foo.exe is: " + size + " bytes.");
});