getting the file size before downloading in android - android

Can anybody tell me how to get the size of a file before downloading it from server(may be http,ftp or anything) in android?.Does streaming works?. Please Help me..
Regards
Varnesh

Try this will work in case the http server is giving the file size
URL myUrl = new URL("http://jamants.com/file.mp3");
URLConnection urlConnection = myUrl.openConnection();
urlConnection.connect();
int file_size = urlConnection.getContentLength();
Or second Version try this.
URL myUrl = new URL("http://jamants.com/file.mp3");
myConnection = myUrl.openConnection();
List headersize = myConnection.getHeaderFields().get("content-Lenght");
It Works in my project.

If you are using the built-in Apahce HTTP library to make a request for a file, you can get the file size by requesting the headers only. Inside the headers will be a "content-length" attribute that will indicate the number of bytes of the requested file. Requesting the headers will not request the file itself.

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